Fred Saberhagen

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.

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

I've learned that even the word 'jubilee' used in connection with the Reformation can give rise to discussions.