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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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