Earth Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing…

— Viola Davis

For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make.…

— Mark Hosler

I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

— Edan Lepucki

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

— Sarah Lancashire

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.

— Joan Didion

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the…

— Carson McCullers

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

— Christopher Paolini

Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do…

— India.Arie

What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?

— Deborah Butterfield

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

— Colin Wilson

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

— Stephen King

If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.

— Tyler Henry