Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Theodore Sturgeon

Read through the most famous quotes from Theodore Sturgeon




Nothing is always absolutely so


— Theodore Sturgeon


#humor

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


— Theodore Sturgeon


#love

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.


— Theodore Sturgeon


#science-fiction #science

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


— Theodore Sturgeon


#science

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful.


— Theodore Sturgeon


#beauty

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


— Theodore Sturgeon


#dream #find #i #i do #know

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.


— Theodore Sturgeon


#here #made #mean #point #same

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


— Theodore Sturgeon


#basically #fiction #ideas #people #write

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.


— Theodore Sturgeon


#become #i #i quit #job #quit

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.


— Theodore Sturgeon


#else #everybody #everybody else #felt #had






About Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon Quotes




Did you know about Theodore Sturgeon?

Statistics herein refer to the original editions only. Life and family
Sturgeon was a distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson and through his Waldo Hamilton Dicker and Dunn ancestors a direct descendant of numerous influential Puritan Presbyterian and Anglican clergymen. Their stepfather William Dickie Sturgeon (sometimes known as Argyll) was a mathematics teacher at a prep school and then Romance Languages Professor at Drexel Institute [later Drexel Institute of Technology] in Philadelphia.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted Sturgeon in 2000 its fifth class of two deceased and two living writers. Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo; February 26 1918 – May 8 1985) was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. His most famous novel is the science fiction More Than Human (1953).

back to top