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I have some good stories yet to tell.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Good Story
Stories
Good Stories
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Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Alive
Born
Mean
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Age
1960s
Writing
Fairly
Advanced
Seriously
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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Stories
Type
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The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Done
Forty
Years
Forty Years
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Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Certain
Fields
Importance
Research
Considerable
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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Fantasy
Fiction
People
Science Fiction
Science People Science Fiction
Cons
Overlap
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The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Belief
Cheerful
Plus
Tools
Willingness
Suspend
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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Fun
Literature
Writing
Mysteries
Spoiling
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Book
Boundaries
Effort
Humanity
Define
Efforts
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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 / Fictioneer
Making A Living
Chief
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And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Space
Thinking
Times Are Changing
Space Time Universe
Quickly
Space And Time
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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 / Fictioneer
Trends
Vampire
Way
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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 / Fictioneer
Fiction
People
Speculative Fiction
Published
Speculative
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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 / Fictioneer
Block
Income
People
Stable
Writing
Afflicts
Ample
Mainly
Suspect
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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 / Fictioneer
Alarms
Chapters
Literature
Wife
Condition
Affairs
Alarm
Fully
Towards
Joan
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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 / Fictioneer
Effort
Magazines
One Day
People
Reading
Science Fiction
Finally
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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 / Fictioneer
Art
Computer
Games
Literature
Opera
Someday
Art Form
Puppet
Puppet Show
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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.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Ancient
Connections
Egypt
Literature
Work Will More
Commenting
Current
Dracula
Immediately
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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 / Fictioneer
Available
Book
Feelings
Ink
Long
Paper
Time Long Long Time
Forms
Gut
Gut Feeling
Quantities
Substantial
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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 / Fictioneer
Ideas
Labor
Paperwork
Right Words
Sitting
Thinking
Trying
Everywhere
Coherent
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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 / Fictioneer
Determination
Ingredients
Luck
People
Sheer
Stubbornness
Two
Third
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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 / Fictioneer
Bats
Cake
Rejection
Slips
Bat
Immediate
Piece
Rejection Slips
Sold
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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 / Fictioneer
Kings
Book
Editors
Selling
Willing
Pick
Sold
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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 / Fictioneer
Advice
People
Writing
Tips
Added
Additional
Useful
Fundamental
Relatives
Sending
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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 / Fictioneer
Appreciate
Book
Credit
Forty
Helping
Ordinary
Stress
Years
Bad Time
Comments
Forty Years
Readers
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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 / Fictioneer
Collaboration
Doubt
Mexico
New Mexico
Roger
Socializing
Spoiled
Working Together
Time Family Together
Naturally
Family Time Together
Raise
Seemed
Young Kids
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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 / Fictioneer
Character
Computer
Considering
Mean
Thinking
Work Character Done
Forth
Generate
Interactions
Limitations
Neatly
Successfully
Talks
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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 and stopped it.
Fred Saberhagen / Fictioneer
Book
Character
Interesting
Series
Appear
World Feel Go
World Feel Things
Began
Cast
Closed
Swords
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