Erin Morgenstern Quotes

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

What about us? Can i see you again? You can say no. You'd crush all my hopes and dreams, but it's an option.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is one day going to be transformed into something wonderful and exciting. She has hopes and fears and worries, just like anyone. Sometimes she feels frightened. Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.