Defense Quote by Peter Ackroyd

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

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

— Jon Stewart

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

— Danielle LaPorte

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

— Stephen King

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

— Ben Marcus

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

— Marcus Aurelius

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

— Byron Katie

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

— Pearl Cleage

If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.

— Gordon Morton McGregor

Experience the world based on truth, not your fear of it.

— Anouk Adriani

When you start to build self-worth and redeem your magnificence, the fears go away... you void your fears via your realization of your own…

— Lee Carroll