Quotes About Insecurity

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

I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

I'm a lousy writer, and it shows when I try to write poetry.

My mother's side taught me to be a little bit afraid of everything. For a long time, I was quiet and cautious. But shyness makes you notice other people's excruciations and feel for them. I think that made a writer of me.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.

I'm hugely affected by what people think. It could be a million people saying, 'Great.' And then one person writes, 'What the hell is this kid doing?' and starts slagging me off, for some reason, and then I have to join in the blog and sign in under a different name and go,'Why don't you like him?'

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

The woman is bad-tempered because she's terrified.

Ada. Even if you run away from me like some I know, I'm still Ada.

The typical male response to happiness, thought Melena: to predict its demise.

Madame Morrible, for all her upper-class diction and fabulous wardrobe, seemed just a tad—oh—dangerous. As if her big public smile were composed of the light glancing off knives and lances, as if her deep voice masked the rumbling of distant explosions. Galinda always felt as if she couldn't see the whole picture.

She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.

People's biggest worries include financial anxiety, health concerns, job insecurity, and having to do tiring and boring chores.

Man clings to himself and what is his, over and beyond death itself, and he is afraid to let life out of his hands—life, this most real of all things, this most pitiful of all pitiful things, the most eternal of all that is eternal.

I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.