Failure Quote by Nikki Giovanni

I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to…

— Robert Cormier

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm…

— Joss Whedon

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process…

— Walter Dean Myers

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted,…

— Jonathan Franzen

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

— Jamaica Kincaid

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the fortitude to work in a vacuum. For me,…

— Jonathan Dee

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position…

— E. L. Doctorow

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

— Laura van den Berg

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield