Walter Dean Myers Quotes

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

Above all else, 'Doctor Who' still seems to me to offer near-infinite scope for the writer. It must be the least constraining of televisual properties.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word.

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do it.

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.

My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I never thought I could write fiction.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

Each person has a literature inside them.

I guess my use-by date is just about up but if I could come back as a storyteller now, I would be jumping over the moon because wow, just think what's available.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.

I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.