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

Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and...

I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage...

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage...

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've...

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've...

You must write to the people's expertise.

You must write to the people's expertise.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

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

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no...

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no...

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

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

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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

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

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

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

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is...

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is...

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know...

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know...

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you...

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you...

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

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

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

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

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was...

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was...