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

Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so...

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so...

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've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point...

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point...

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people...

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people...

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...

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

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

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

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

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which...

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which...

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...

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 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 wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World...

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World...

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by...

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by...

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.