Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Theodore Sturgeon - Page 2

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.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

Ask the next question.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

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 it is crud.

Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.