Believe Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

Doubtless, reading good books benefited me during the months and years of writing, yet I remained skeptical of any tight correlation to what I…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the…

— Dean Koontz

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

— Tom King

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 doubted myself while others are complimenting my works. Well, it's genuine like a diamond to have friends who believe in you while you…

— Anonymous

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

— Joseph J. Ellis

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

— Dick Dale

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about.…

— Charles Bukowski

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as…

— John Edgar Wideman

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter…

— Jo Nesbo

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the…

— Jennifer Weiner

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

— Laurie Halse Anderson