Fred Saberhagen Quotes

I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed.

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.