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Quotes About Doubt

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn't want to believe that he could have done it.
~ Kato Kaelin
After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.
~ Kevin Bacon
If people don't want to believe in Robbie Fowler, it's because they don't want to
~ Kevin Keegan
I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding on or letting go. I don't want to give up, but if there's nothing for me to hope for, then tell me.
~ Kiera Cass
People want you to fail.
~ Lady Gaga
Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.
~ Lauren Conrad
I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.
~ Lawrence Block
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
~ Lee Iacocca
I'm not sure I ever want to get married.
~ Leighton Meester
I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.
~ Linus Torvalds
When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.
~ Luke Davies
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
~ Lynne Tillman
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.
~ Markus Zusak
Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.
~ Mason Cooley
In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.
~ Matthew Sweet
We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.
~ Neil Portnow
When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.
~ Neil Strauss
You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal
~ Paulo Coelho
You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?
~ Peter Cameron
I am suspicious of what people might want from me. Do they like me, or my money?
~ Petra Stunt
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.
~ Orson Scott Card