R. A. Salvatore Quotes

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

As a typical creative, I am all ego and insecurity!

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

My confidence wavers between being genuine and being insecure.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

I know I have trouble watching my own films.

I've got to overcome that tendency to hide what I write or throw it away.

You do doubt yourself and question yourself. You go from massive highs and confidence boosters - when I was in New York I was buzzing around the place - to really doubting yourself and questioning everything about your personality.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.