Quotes about Validation

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.

I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.

only a tiny portion of the audience is looking for the brand-new thing. Most people are waiting for the tested, the authenticated, and the proven.

admit it. When I get a bad review, my feelings are hurt. After all, it would be nice if every critic said a title of mine was a breakthrough, an inspirational, thoughtful book that explains how everything works. But sometimes they don't. Which is about enough to ruin my day.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go.

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.

We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.