1960s Quote by Fred Saberhagen Download Open image “I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.” — Fred Saberhagen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1960s Age Writing
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, for me, the '60s seemed so far away. But I was actually born in the late '60s. — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I was born in the '50s - 1951. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since… — Anonymous 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure… — Michael Dirda Copy Share
Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit. — Betsey Johnson Copy Share Image
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life… — Susan Griffin Copy Share
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone tapped, while federal agents followed him everywhere. Forced to go underground, he later entered the drug trade & eventually got good at it. However, he told my friend, soon after this nobody kept tabs on him--he… — Luis J. Rodríguez Copy Share
I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead… — Dharmendra Copy Share Image
Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share