Quotes by Fred Saberhagen

About Fred Saberhagen:

Fred Thomas Saberhagen was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F. novels.
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Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads, Its master's step is brisk; The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads But adds unto their risk.

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

I have some good stories yet to tell.

Fred Saberhagen

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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.

Fred Saberhagen

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 a...

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

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

Fred Saberhagen

Author Bio

  • NameFred Saberhagen
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 18, 1930
  • DiedJune 29, 2007
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Writer
  • WorksBerserker