#or

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#haven #i #stories #way #writing

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. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #find #how #keep #learning

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#because #everybody #expert #grab #loneliness

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#degree #desires #devastating #forever #lose

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#appealing #bring #extraordinarily #forbid #make

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#artist #focus #going #inevitably #involved

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#any #anything #before #body #i

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#angles #any #anything #avoid #body

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#country #court #directors #every #expert