The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. Fred Saberhagen More Quotes by Fred Saberhagen More Quotes From Fred Saberhagen 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 determinationtwopeople Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. Fred Saberhagen certainfieldsresearch 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 feelingslongbook 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 blockwritingpeople Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue. Fred Saberhagen bornalivemean 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 vampiretrendsway I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday. Fred Saberhagen literaturegamesart And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly. Fred Saberhagen times-are-changingspacethinking 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 effortreadingpeople I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. Fred Saberhagen editorskingsbook I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. Fred Saberhagen typestories 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 tryingideasthinking 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 batsrejectioncake I have some good stories yet to tell. Fred Saberhagen good-storystories More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. Fred Saberhagen egyptconnectionsliterature 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 speculative-fictionpeoplefiction Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. Fred Saberhagen literaturewritingfun Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. Fred Saberhagen efforthumanitybook The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. Fred Saberhagen fortydoneyears 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 stressbookyears
