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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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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

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

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

— Fred Saberhagen

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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

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

— Fred Saberhagen

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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

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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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