American - Writer | February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
Theodore Sturgeon
ShortFocusedWholeShouldScene
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
WritingDoneWayStories
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
SciencePoetryLimitsScience Fiction
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
ScienceYouTestScience FictionOut
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether.
WorldRealityTalkingYouCreate
There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do.
LookingYouThingsMuchCould
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
ScienceGreenWorldLostMonkey
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
WorldReadingStoryLostSightWell
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
PeopleWriteThingsCannotWhoVery
I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.
GoodGreatAngryPeopleMeSaying
I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.
LifeMy LifeDreamNeverConviction
As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.
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