Fred Saberhagen Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

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.

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.

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.

The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.

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.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

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.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

I have some good stories yet to tell.

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 was alive when born. He means to continue.