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Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have."
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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."
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"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."
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"Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life."
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"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."
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"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars."
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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."
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