Anxiety Quote by Dick Cavett

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

— Ralph Keyes

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

— Ralph Keyes

When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.

— Kate DiCamillo

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

— Laura van den Berg

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

“I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think…

— Tony Kushner

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

— Chuck Jones

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

“More than a few people, some of whom think they know me quite well, have remarked that they are struck that I, who can…

— Scott Stossel