I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears.


The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) - ISBN: 9780544363793

J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other...

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other...

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other...

I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other...