Quotes About Self-doubt

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

Luckily they haven't heard me or if they have they've sense enough to ignore me. I wish I could ignore me.

And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.