Fred Saberhagen Quotes
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
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In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
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Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
