Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

American - Writer | February 26, 1918 - May 8, 1985

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

Theodore Sturgeon

DreamsWifeBeginningMeSeemMeans

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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DreamFindKnowMixedAstonishment

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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ThoughtDreamYearsOutLeftSimply

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

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MeStudyAlwaysSomething

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

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StorySomeoneYouWriteLetterWere

Writing is a communication.

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CommunicationWriting

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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GreatFireAmericanYouPageKnow

You must write to the people's expertise.

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PeopleYouWriteExpertiseMust

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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PeopleNobodyImportantSayWant

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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GoodYouSkillSaySomethingGot

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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AlwaysNutsBeenObsessive

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

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EnoughAnythingHeWantsAnybody

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