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" As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Society

Man

Far

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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. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Saying

People

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

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

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

" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Important

Life

" 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. "

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

" Ninety percent of everything is crap. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Anything

Enough

" I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. "

" For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. "

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

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

" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "

" Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. "

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

Theodore Sturgeon

Beginning

Wife

" You must write to the people's expertise. "

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

" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "

" 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. "

" You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. "

" Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. "

" Writing is a communication. "

Theodore Sturgeon

Communication

Writing

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

" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "