Composition Quote by Michael Chabon

“When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has, at some…

— Michael Chabon

I have no fears or inhibitions while composing. It's a way of expressing myself.

— Santhosh Narayanan

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

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 for me,…

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been…

— Cornelia Parker

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.

— Marlon James

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Pearl Cleage

I'm always terrified when I'm writing.

— Mary Karr

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into…

— Alan Garner