There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Interpretation
Effective communication is crucial to conveying important ideas.
The quote emphasizes the significance of how ideas are presented. Even the most valuable insights can be overlooked if they are poorly articulated. It suggests that the manner in which we express our thoughts holds considerable weight in ensuring that they are heard and appreciated.
In practice
In a workshop on effective communication, this quote could be used to illustrate the importance of presentation.
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse.
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.
When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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