"At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it."

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"At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process."

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"To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it."

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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"A goal properly set is halfway reached."

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"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

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"I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do."

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Explore more quotes by Fred Saberhagen

"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."

World

"I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time."

Time

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

Trust

"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."

Friendship

"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."

Work

"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."

Success

"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."

Creativity

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

Books

"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."

Science

"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."

Work