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Theodore Sturgeon

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

Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer
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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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"Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing."

Theodore Sturgeon, American Writer
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Theodore Sturgeon
"I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is."
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"Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether."
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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 quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
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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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"Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas."
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"There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do."
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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."
Reading, Sight, World
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"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me."
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"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."
People, Learning, Study
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