Quotes from Theodore Sturgeon

It's a team, that's what I mean. There's a lot of yammering going on about the women taking over. They're not taking over. They're moving in.

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

Teaching is an art that can be learned; learning from a teacher is an art that can be learned; anyone who tries--and we all try--can gain a certain competence in teaching; but a real teacher, now---he has a talent. He has a gift like a fine artist or musician or sculptor. Oh, we think highly of teachers, and of teaching. Teaching is part of loving, you know

they shipbuilders or professors of Baltic languages. And some of the staff, like some builders and teachers everywhere, were burdened by too many hours, too little help, too few facilities, and too much tradition, yet found their greatest burden the constant, grinding, overriding necessity for quality.

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

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.

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Writing is a communication.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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

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.

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.

90% of everything is crap.

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

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?" "It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

Live long and prosper