Impulse Quote by Edan Lepucki

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.

— Pearl Cleage

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of…

— Adam Pascal

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

— Melissa de la Cruz

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

— Helen Keller

“My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who take the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant…

— Brenda Miller

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

— Paul Dano

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

Think about the stories you have inside that scare you. That's what you should be writing. I and others call that writing from the…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

— Jacqueline Woodson