Quote by Theodore Sturgeon
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mi

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 off as fiction, but it really isnt fiction at all. – Theodore Sturgeon

Other quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

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. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Learning
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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. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Science
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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. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Dreams
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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies. – William Temple

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I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating. – Simon Pegg

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Think about scary movies: Theres a fine line between horror and humor. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over. – Danny McBride

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