Balance Quote by Judith Kelman

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am…

— Michael Cera

“Self-doubt is every writer’s nemesis. While healthy in moderation, unchecked self-doubt can lead to procrastination, crippling perfectionism, and ultimately failure. If you’re drawn to…

— Will Raywood

“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.”

— Chloe Thurlow

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

— Ronald Frame

Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

— Nick Hornby

I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.

— Meg Wolitzer

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside…

— Anonymous

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Writing is very hard mostly because until you try to write something down, it’s easy to fool yourself into believing you understand things. Writing…

— Mark Vonnegut

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

— Twinkle Khanna