Books Quote by Melissa Febos

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put…

— R. L. Stine

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is…

— Ben Marcus

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the…

— Melissa Marr

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation…

— Dawn French

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 always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that…

— Anne Fadiman

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far…

— Ben Fountain

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We…

— Salman Rushdie

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction…

— David Grann