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Fred Saberhagen

American Author

Born: May 18, 1930

Been Books People Time Work Writing

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

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

Time Long Long Time Feeling Other Books Paper Though Gut Gut Feeling Quantities Going Substantial Forms Available Us Certainly Now Ink

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly. Fred Saberhagen

Time Space Think Universe Changing About Know Very Quickly Space And Time

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. Fred Saberhagen

Writing Stage Living Simply Making Making A Living Goal Chief Professional Keep

I have some good stories yet to tell. Fred Saberhagen

Good Tell Some Good Stories Stories

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. Fred Saberhagen

Age Writing Seriously About Advanced Fairly Started

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. Fred Saberhagen

Time Type Like Just Stories Story

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. Fred Saberhagen

Fear Will Mysteries Write Never Spoiling Read Fun

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. Fred Saberhagen

Humanity Books Define Written Boundaries Been Efforts Ever

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Fred Saberhagen

Me About Been Years Done Forty Forty Years

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. Fred Saberhagen

You Science People Big Meet Science Fiction Overlap Fiction Fantasy Cons

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. Fred Saberhagen

People Writing Problem Some Writer Outside Mainly Block Been Source Afflicts Suspect Stable Far Who Income Ample

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's 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

Words Down Thinking Everywhere Right Words Paperwork Find Ideas Does Labor Get Trying Sitting Just Story Them Actually Right Coherent

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 wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. Fred Saberhagen

Success Cake Thought Sense Rejection Bat Sold Immediate Slips Something Had Piece Off Did Going Really Full Right Rejection Slips

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

Success Me You People Determination Will Three Luck Say Out Stubbornness Talent Sheer Any Ask Ingredients Two Third

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've 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. It's happened a few times in forty years. Fred Saberhagen

Time Book Stress Few Books Bad Some Through Bad Time Come Most Readers Years Comments Times Happened Ordinary Them Forty Forty Years Who Helping Lives Credit Actually Appreciate

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