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 Copy Share Image
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,… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
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… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
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… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck.… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share
