Wayne Dyer Quotes

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.

I always try to write the best I can.

I always want to write something better than the last book.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

There is nothing like practice.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Experience really does make you better, man.

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Songwriting is a muscle. The more you do it, the better you get at it.

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

The more games I play, the better I get.

The confidence and the comfort level just comes with playing a lot and practicing. Obviously, the more you practice, the more you play, the more comfortable you get.

The more movies you make, the better you will get.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.