Ability Quote by James Frey

I'm not confident, and yet I'm oddly confident. You have to have a certain amount of ego to be a writer in the first…

— Rosemary Mahoney

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 believe in myself enough to not get hung up on what other people are doing, or what I should be writing, or the…

— Aldous Harding

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and…

— Conor Oberst

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

— Christopher Hitchens

With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it, you will…

— Scott Spencer

It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as…

— James M. Gavin

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

— Ronald Frame

A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be like, 'I'm…

— Brian Fallon

“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for which there…

— Heather Sellers

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

— Judith Kelman

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