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You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Writing is a communication.

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.

Theodore Sturgeon

American

Fire

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Theodore Sturgeon

First

Writing

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

Theodore Sturgeon

Writing

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

Want

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

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

Theodore Sturgeon

Study

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Theodore Sturgeon

Space