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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
Actually
Coherent
Does
Down
Everywhere
Find
Get
Ideas
Just
Labor
Paperwork
Right
Right Words
Sitting
Story
Them
Thinking
Trying
Words
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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
About
Changing
Know
Quickly
Space
Space And Time
Think
Time
Universe
Very
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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
Chief
Goal
Keep
Living
Making
Making A Living
Professional
Simply
Stage
Writing
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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
Art
Art Form
Computer
Form
Game
Games
Interested
Just
Know
Like
Opera
Puppet
Puppet Show
Show
Someday
Something
Still
Why
Work
Would
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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
About
Another
Been
Book
Both
Collaboration
Doubt
Each
Ever
Family
Had
Happened
Kids
Lead
Mexico
Move
Naturally
New
New Mexico
Raise
Roger
Same
Same Time
Seemed
Socializing
Spoiled
Time
Together
Working
Working Together
Young
Young Kids
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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
Could
Day
Decided
Doing
Effort
Fiction
Finally
Least
Made
Magazines
One Day
People
Reading
Science
Science Fiction
Serious
Some
Time
Well
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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
Books
Editors
Guess
King
Like
Me
Next
Other
Pick
Seem
Selling
Set
Sold
Want
Willing
Would
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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
Bat
Cake
Did
Full
Going
Had
Immediate
Off
Piece
Really
Rejection
Rejection Slips
Right
Sense
Slips
Sold
Something
Success
Thought
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I have some good stories yet to tell.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Good
Good Stories
Some
Stories
Tell
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
~ Fred Saberhagen
About
Advanced
Age
Fairly
Seriously
Started
Writing
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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
Afflicts
Ample
Been
Block
Far
Income
Mainly
Outside
People
Problem
Some
Source
Stable
Suspect
Who
Writer
Writing
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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Just
Like
Stories
Story
Time
Type
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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
Because
Better
Could
Fiction
Getting
Loved
People
Published
Read
Some
Speculative
Than
Thought
Were
Who
Wrote
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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
Any
Ask
Determination
Ingredients
Luck
Me
Out
People
Say
Sheer
Stubbornness
Success
Talent
Third
Three
Two
Will
You
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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
About
Ancient
Another
As Far As
Commenting
Connections
Current
Currently
Dracula
Egypt
Far
Go
Immediately
More
Want
Which
Will
Work
Working
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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
Available
Books
Certainly
Feeling
Forms
Going
Gut
Gut Feeling
Ink
Long
Long Time
Now
Other
Paper
Quantities
Substantial
Though
Time
Us
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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Fear
Fun
Mysteries
Never
Read
Will
Write
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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
Affairs
Alarm
Any
Chapters
Condition
End
Fully
Got
Joan
Only
Process
State
Towards
Used
Wife
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Been
Books
Boundaries
Define
Efforts
Ever
Humanity
Written
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Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Certain
Considerable
Fields
History
Importance
Research
Science
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