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

Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

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...

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.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

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...

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which...

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which...

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because...

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because...

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...

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.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene...

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene...

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...

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...

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...

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two...

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two...

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm...

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm...

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

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

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.