Fred Saberhagen
Fred Saberhagen
Fred Thomas Saberhagenwas an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F. novels...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've 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.
stress book years
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.
book effort humanity
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
book character interesting
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.
kings book editors
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.
book long feelings
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.
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At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
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The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
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Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.
mean alive born
Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.
block writing people
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.
determination two people
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.
cake rejection pieces
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.
stories good-story
I have some good stories yet to tell.