Vin Diesel Quotes

I'm very hard on myself when it comes to writing.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I know I'm my own worst critic.

We're our own worst critics.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I'm always my worst critic.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.

I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said that you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.)

When I'm writing, I'm thinking, "Well, this might be a book that I'll always be happy with, and certainly readers will be happy with." But another part of me knows that when I'm past the stage of writing, the book is gonna have good things about it, bad things about it - probably more bad than good. I just know that. That's who I am.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I'm pretty self-critical about everything I've ever done: stand-up, 'SNL.'

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

All actors are self-critical.

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!

Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not.