Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. “Put them pants on...

Living things aren't finished, you see. Everything they have ever been in contact with, each thought...

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good ficti...

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.

Why do you talk all the time?” I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one...

Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to...

Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered fo...

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically eve...

I went back every evening, after work, for nearly a year. I learned the meaning of the cud of a leaf...

He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a...

Had I been screaming, screaming, in some way? I with my life so separate and well-ordered in the com...

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solut...

The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk fro...

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encounter...

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

Writing is a communication.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quar...

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote...

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer becau...