Doubts Quote by Rick Riordan

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's…

— Robert Sheckley

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter…

— Jo Nesbo

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you…

— Jenny Offill

Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing it better……

— William Zinsser

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I…

— Robin Pecknold

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

You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to…

— Matt Haig

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

— Gene Weingarten

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about.…

— Charles Bukowski

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you…

— George V. Higgins

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon