Confidence Quote by Allynn Riggs

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept…

— Colson Whitehead

“It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is always peace…

— Truman Capote

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Hope. The activity of the impotent. His was a world of action, of relying on his own wits and ability to create the luck…

— Taylor Stevens

“A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been thinking of…

— John Williams

“He felt certain that he was a failure, every artistic endeavor ending with his own surprise at how little had come from it. Perhaps…

— Kevin Wilson

“It was his hopeless hope that some time he would have an experience that would act on his life like alchemy, turning to gold…

— Rebecca West

“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few…

— Henry James

“He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future.”

— John Gardner

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald