Fred Saberhagen Quotes

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I prefer writing originals.

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

You become a great writer by writing.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I want to become a very good writer.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.

I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

There is no motivation higher than being a good writer.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories; it's just a matter of being able to connect with their emotional sides - that's the key to writing good fiction.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big. This could be the greatest novel in the world you know.