Lauren Oliver Quotes

I'm a very, very modest person and with limited abilities. I do have the wish to succeed in anything I undertake, and that does help out, but, in general, there are so many other people who are skilled in their field that I feel very ordinary.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

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

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

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

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

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

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 never felt, 'Oh, I think I look good.' I always tend to be more in the insecure side. And I thought that has always been a way to protect myself. Because I don't trust the good feelings that can come from that.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I was wracked with insecurity.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

I'm very insecure.

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'm not good enough to write about my friends, who are all brilliant and sophisticated.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

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

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.