Wayne Dyer Quotes

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

Never regret what you don't write.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

Definitely. The way I look is a reflection of who I am. That's how my music is too.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

The poetry is myself.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.