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" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Important
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Me
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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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" 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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" 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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Company
" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "
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" As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. "
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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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" 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. "
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Mind
" You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. "
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Expert
You
" You must write to the people's expertise. "
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You
Write
" 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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First
Short
" Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. "
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People
Write
You
" I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. "
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Green
Monkey
Lost
" My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. "
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Me
Wife
" 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 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. "
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You
American
Fire
" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "
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Nuts
Been
Obsessive
" I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. "
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Five
Live
Week
" There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. "
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People
Lot
Write
" 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. "
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Man
Far
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Teach
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" Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. "
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Job
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" When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. "
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Writer