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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. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Never
Lived
My Life
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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. "
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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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" 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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" For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. "
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" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "
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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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" 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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" Writing is a communication. "
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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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Green
Monkey
Lost
" I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. "
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" There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. "
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" I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week. "
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Live
Week
" It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. "
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" Ninety percent of everything is crap. "
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Ninety
Crap
Everything
" 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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World
Create
Reality
" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "
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Science Fiction
Poetry
Limits
" When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it. "
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Me
Always
" In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. "
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Science
Own
Science Fiction
" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "
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Important
Life
Me
" You must write to the people's expertise. "
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Expertise
You
Write
" I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. "
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Students
Teach
Writing
" 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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Me
Saying
People
" Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. "
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Anything
Enough
He
" There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. "
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Could
Much
Looking
" Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. "
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Space
Empty
" 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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" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "
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Mixed
Astonishment
Dream
" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "
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Letter
Someone
" 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