Wayne Dyer Quotes

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

I love to write. It's my first love.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

When I first started writing, I did mostly short fiction, and I'd work on a short story and get near to being done and have no idea what I'd work on next, and then I'd panic.

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.