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The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

The best writers I’ve read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.
– Don Roff

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  2. Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time. – Sunday Adelaja
  3. I don’t possess these thoughts I have — they possess me. I don’t possess these feelings I have — They obsess me. – Ashly Lorenzana
  4. [G]ive him this much: death didn’t just walk up and inhale him. He wasn’t exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life. – Denis Johnson
  5. Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
  6. Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal. – Thomm Quackenbush
  7. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  8. And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
  9. Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind. – Don Roff
  10. By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  11. You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. – Don Roff
  12. You can be a writer who doesn’t read everyday. But you’re not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work. – Don Roff
  13. Self-confident people are proud of their accomplishments, but can remain humble without bragging. – Susan C Young
  14. love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth. – Sloane Crosley
  15. Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful. – Anonymous
  16. Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful. – Kristin Cashore
  17. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  18. I must rule with eye and claw -” as the hawk among lesser birds. – Duke Leto Atreides – Frank Herbert
  19. …good words – that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you – chew you over and over – if you carry such a small knife … – John Geddes
  20. Monsters never truly go away. They claw their way to the surface again eventually. – Nikki Rae
  21. The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come. – Agona Apell
  22. Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. – Victor Hugo
  23. All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
  24. It’s true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well. – Bradley Steffens
  25. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  26. Doubt thou the stars are fire Doubt thou the sun doth moveDoubt truth to be a liar But never doubt I love – William Shakespeare
  27. Doubt is horrible feature… we all doubt that’s the worst part and the worse episode in this season of doubt. – Deyth Banger
  28. Doubt is horrible feature… we all doubt that’s the worst part and the worse episode in this season of doubt. – Deyth Banger
  29. Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. – Don Roff
  30. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  31. We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God’s grace is poured out on the humble. – Elyse M Fitzpatrick
  32. God always gives grace to the person who knows how to humble himself before Him and who sets his hopes on Him. God only gives grace to humble people. – Pastor Adelaja Sunday
  33. Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name-”PIE. – Sarah Weeks
  34. A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research. – Will Self
  35. The promises of prayer are extraordinary, but for prayer to work as God promises it to work, it must be purged of self and doubt. – Leslie Ludy
  36. To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time. – Sunday Adelaja
  37. If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. – Rachel Naomi Remen
  38. I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  39. Most people who possess life in reality, do not quite understand what they possess. – Sunday Adelaja
  40. If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. – Bryant McGill

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