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

#coherent #does #down #everywhere #find

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

#better #could #fiction #getting #i

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

#ask #determination #i #ingredients #luck

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. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#books #certainly #feeling #forms #going

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#fun #i #mysteries #never #probably

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

#alarm #any #chapters #condition #end

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#books #boundaries #define #efforts #ever

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#been #done #forty #forty years #me

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#cons #fantasy #fiction #meet #overlap