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.
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.366, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
