Confidence Quote by Chloe Thurlow

“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).”

— Albert Camus

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

— Stephen King

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great.…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

— Judith Kelman

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

“Writing is also like love, if one can't have the courage to be a renunciant, they cannot write well.”

— Suman Pokhrel

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White