Fred Saberhagen Quotes

Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.

A movie that's about other horror movies isn't interesting. A movie about who we are, is.

I think a life of a human being is not something you can explain in a few interview questions. The stuff you do in the media is sometimes a great reflection and sometimes not a great reflection of who you are as a person.

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

I'm always looking for something that tells me a little bit about what it means to be human. That's how I measure the success of any artistic endeavor.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.