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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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
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
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
Fred Saberhagen
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
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.
Fred Saberhagen
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Fred Saberhagen
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