Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing…

Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...