Both sides Quote by Conor Oberst

I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not…

— James Frey

I think there's a kind of confidence I often feel when I'm writing that I don't feel when I'm in the world, I guess.…

— Karen Russell

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

— Christopher Hitchens

And when I'm writing well and when I'm inside the feeling, then I can do fairly complicated things with some fluency.

— Edward Hirsch

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

— St. Lucia

If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly…

— Anna Meredith

Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling…

— Brandi Carlile

It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words…

— Philippe Claudel

I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like…

— Sara Zarr

I try not to think too much about my writing process - I tend to feel my way forward and find more insights that…

— Nick Petrie

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,…

— James Lipton

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

— Agatha Christie