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Theodore Sturgeon

"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."

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"There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it."

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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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"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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"I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer."
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"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one."
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"I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it."
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"Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty."
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"Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words."
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"As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever."
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