Fred Saberhagen

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.”