Theodore Sturgeon People Quotations

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

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

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

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.

More and more, I've come to the feeling that I'm looking for people who believe in something, virtually anything, providing they believe in it.