Markus Zusak Quotes

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.

I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

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.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'