Able Quote by Arthur Nersesian

I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about…

— Virginia Williams

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second…

— Marsha Mason

There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to…

— Anais Nin

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

I became a writer out of the desire to express myself.

— Pankaj Kapur

I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

— Tullian Tchividjian

It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby.…

— Kate Atkinson

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

— Shawn Colvin

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I…

— Len Wein

And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you…

— Julian Barnes

I was left with myself and had to do the one thing I could to survive. I knew it would be difficult to write,…

— Frederick Seidel

The spotlight was on me. I pretended it wasn't, but it was, and for every wrong reason. It was all about money, it was…

— Shane Black