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" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Mixed
Astonishment
Dream
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" 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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" Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. "
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" I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream. "
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" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "
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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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" There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. "
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" Ninety percent of everything is crap. "
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" It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. "
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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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Mean
Here
" 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. "
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Keep
Find
You
" I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. "
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Live
Week
" In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. "
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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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" When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. "
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Good
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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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" 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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Society
Man
Far
" 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. "
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Well
Lost
Story
" Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. "
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Space
Empty
" As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. "
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" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "
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" I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. "
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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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" 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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You
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" 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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