50 Quotes by Fred Saberhagen

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.

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.

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.

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.

Doing a work for hire is not necessarily bad, whether it's an encyclopedia article or a tie-in novel. It's just that you get no royalties.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

The critics and reviewers of a hundred years from now, if they remember any of us at all, may have opinions much different from those of today.

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