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Top 25 Fred Saberhagen Quotes (2025 Update)

Fred Saberhagen Quote: “Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.”

1. “Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “The Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we’re not done yet.”

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

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.”

3. “Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.”

8. “There’s a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.”

9. “I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “I have some good stories yet to tell.”

10. “I have some good stories yet to tell.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.”

13. “Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “In stories, any number of imbeciles may be encountered, ready to deliberately insult strangers who are aiming deadly weapons at them. In real life, there are only a few folk so suicidally inclined.”

15. “In stories, any number of imbeciles may be encountered, ready to deliberately insult strangers who are aiming deadly weapons at them. In real life, there are only a few folk so suicidally inclined.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.”

19. “And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “Probably all the books I’ve ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.”

21. “Probably all the books I’ve ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “I wouldn’t like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.”

25. “I wouldn’t like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.”

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “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.”

26. “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

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

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

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Fred Saberhagen Quote: “For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.”

28. “For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.”

— Fred Saberhagen

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