Anxiety Quote by Ralph Keyes

It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to…

— Jean-Benoit Dunckel

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

— Floyd Patterson

But I'm more scared of not writing.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.”

— M. Molly Backes

I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people…

— Sarah Kay

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the…

— Mat Johnson

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.…

— Gloria Anzaldua

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well…

— Maria Lenhart

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like…

— Angel Olsen

“You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more…

— Taylor Dayne

“Sometimes we don't know where we are going until we get there.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,…

— Mike Birbiglia

It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing…

— Robert B. Weide