Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.