Awakening Quote by Nicole Krauss

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

— Anonymous

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

— Joan Juliet Buck

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

— Judith Kelman

“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 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 really only trust my own feelings when I am writing something.

— Simon Amstell

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

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

— Natalie Goldberg

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of…

— Barry Hannah

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Chloe Thurlow