Begin Quote by Glen Duncan

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

— Mary H.K. Choi

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily…

— Thomas Merton

A lot of stuff written about me is rubbish. I don't know where they get it from, sometimes.

— Agyness Deyn

I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.

— Gabby Barrett

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

— Richard Flanagan

I'll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic.

— Rebel Wilson

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it…

— Blackie

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I…

— Maeve Binchy

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I…

— Thundercat

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read…

— Alan Bennett