Brandon Sanderson Quotes

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

To write is a humiliation.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

I'm my own worst enemy.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change that. I can't change that part of my psychological makeup.

I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

I don't like the feeling of being unhappy. I don't like the feeling of being unsure about myself, or uncertain with where something's going - I would rather turn away. I just can't feel like that ever again. It's just horrible.

But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.