Theodore Sturgeon
Writer
1918-02-26 – 1985-05-08
American science fiction writer and critic whose short fiction and novels were highly influential in the genre. He is best known for stories such as "Microcosmic God" and the novel More Than Human.
Books by Theodore Sturgeon
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The Dark Descent
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Dark Forces
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Ultimate Egoist: Volume I
The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Sturgeon, Theodore. Short Stories, V. 1.)
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Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon
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The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
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Why do you talk all the time?— I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully."I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, —so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.
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Why do you talk all the time?— I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully."I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, —so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.
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The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
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There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
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A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened without its science content.
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