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

— 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'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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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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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Writing is a communication. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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You must write to the people's expertise. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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

— Theodore Sturgeon

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