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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

Topics: 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

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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

Topics: Any Ask Determination Ingredients Luck Me Out People Say Sheer Stubbornness Success Talent Third Three Two Will You

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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

Topics: Added Additional Advice Any Buy Could Fiction Friends Fundamental Keep Kind Lot Out People Power Relatives Same Sending Things Tips Useful Who Would Writing

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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

Topics: Actually Appreciate Bad Book Books Come Comments Credit Few Forty Forty Years Happened Helping Lives Most Ordinary Readers Some Stress Them Through Time Times Who Years

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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

Topics: About Appear Began Book Cast Characters Closed Feel Go Had Interesting Other Series Started Still Stopped Swords Then Things Up Wanted Were World

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 18th, 1930

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