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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. "
Theodore Sturgeon
Paper
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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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" 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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" 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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" There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. "
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" I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. "
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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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" There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. "
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" In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities. "
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" Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. "
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" When I can't do something, this always impels me to study 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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" As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever. "
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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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You
" I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. "
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Teach
Writing
" Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. "
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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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Lost
Story
" It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. "
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Sentences
" 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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" 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
" I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. "
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Letter
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" Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. "
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Life
Me
" There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done. "
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Way
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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" The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. "
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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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" 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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" Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough. "
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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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" 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
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