Cautious Quote by Susan Sontag

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

— Anne Rice

But I'm more scared of not writing.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

— Toni Morrison

I'm very comfortable writing.

— Ann Patchett

Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

— Lauren Oliver

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

— Victoria Laurie

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

— Anne Stuart

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

— Joan Juliet Buck

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

I certainly wouldn't feel safe telling people I was writer.

— Sophie Dahl

I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely because I…

— Steven Knight