Sturgeon is Alive and Well Quotes

“Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon is Alive and Well

“So when it happens, don't just say Damn and forget it. Stop a minute and think it through. Somebody's going to change the face of the earth and it could be you.

'It Was Nothing -- Really!', 1969”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon is Alive and Well

“Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to... whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before I would paint it. And I used to be a pretty simple fellow, and found many completely beautiful things to paint.

But the older you get the fewer completely beautiful things you see. Every flower has a brown spot somewhere, and a hippogriff has evil laughter. So at some point in his development an artist has to paint, not what he sees (which is what I've always done) but the beauty in what he sees. Most painters, I think, cross this line early; I'm crossing it late.

("To Here and the Easel", 1954)”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Sturgeon is Alive and Well