“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
“Things are never as bad as we fear nor as good as we hope. François Théodore Thistlethwaite”
“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”
“I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.”
“Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.”
“What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.”