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Stephen King says his biggest fear is his own imagination, not a simple idea of fear itself. He notes that fear of the end of a sweet dream can be stronger than pain. He believes that unnamed fear cannot be conquered, and he uses nightmares to explore survival instincts.

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I tend to scare myself.

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“Fear is fertile and rage is its offspring..”

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“How I wish you were fear.”

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“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”

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The scariest moment is just before you start.

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“In the end, we wear out our worries.”

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Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

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I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.

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It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

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I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

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“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”

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“until the next time, when, in the grip of the nightmare, all fears will be remembered.”

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In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

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“Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.”

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“Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.”

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

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It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small,…

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“There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!”

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I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up…

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“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to…

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that…

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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid…

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Its not the pain Im afraid of; I know about the pain. What Im afraid of is the end of this small,…

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“God I am unlucky. I don't hate You, but I fear You are not my friend, nor any man's friend.”

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I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;…

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“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear…

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They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love…

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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always,…

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When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance…

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“The most enthusiastic tellers of these tales, he came to realize, were men who wouldn’t be dragged into the Falcon with a…

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“To this point in his life, Jake had been aware of only three feelings about his father: puzzlement, fear, and a species…

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I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to…

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“adults had their own terrors, and their glands could be tapped, opened so that all the chemicals of fear flooded the body…

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“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed…

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“Eddie howling at Beverly to shoot It, shoot It. But Beverly did not. This was her only other chance. That didn’t matter;…

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“You haven’t finished the key, but not because you are afraid to finish. You’re afraid of finding you can’t finish. You’re afraid…

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“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping…

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The good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew…

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“In the modern world all terrors could be gutted by simple use of the transitive axiom of quality. Some fears were justified,…

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“Before marrying Vic, she had been a librarian in the Westchester school system, and her own private nightmare had always been telling…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”