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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

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

— Fred Saberhagen

#goal #keep #living #making #making a living

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

#art form #computer #form #game #games

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. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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

— Fred Saberhagen

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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

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

— Fred Saberhagen

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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, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#appreciate #bad #bad time #book #books

There are interactions with characters within the game which I think are pretty neatly done considering the limitations that you have to work with. I mean, a computer can't really generate a character that talks back and forth with you successfully. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

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