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Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Actually ideas are everywhere. Its the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether its an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. Its just that you get no royalties. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I dont know why a computer game cant be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. Im still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I doubt Ill ever do another book collaboration; Ive been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen Kings, and the other wasnt selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen Kings. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasnt. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I have some good stories yet to tell. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I suspect that writers block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasnt been a problem. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I wouldnt like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
More immediately, Im currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. Thats about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joans got used to it. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Probably all the books Ive ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and were not done yet. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers whove happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. Its happened a few times in forty years. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer cant really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
Theres a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen Quotes
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