Being honest Quote by Michael Cunningham

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get…

— Dani Shapiro

I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty…

— Charles de Lint

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and…

— Simon Helberg

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I…

— Leigh Bardugo

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do…

— Zadie Smith

I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence…

— Werner Herzog

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence…

— Walter Kirn

People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks…

— Flannery O'Connor

Sometimes confidence can lead you to accept the first decent idea instead of to really strive to even discard that and go for the…

— Vince Gilligan

“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions…

— Daniel Kahneman

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross…

— Helen Bevington