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
book effort humanity
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
reading people effort
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.
american-author chief simply
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
american-author cheerful plus writer
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
american-author book both doubt family happened kids lead mexico move naturally roger seemed
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.
american-author article hire whether work
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.
writing people advice
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.
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.
years done forty
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.