Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever it is I come across as - which is pretty together.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I suffer from imposter syndrome all the time. Even if I'm just at a party, I'm thinking people are going to find out that I'm really boring.

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

I've got to overcome that tendency to hide what I write or throw it away.

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

For me, I've always been the guy who self-sabotages.

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.