I was a fearful kid and, for some crazy reason, a pretty fearless writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.
When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.
I was an angst-y journal writing kid.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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 somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.
I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.
I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.
I was not a very fearful kid, really.
I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.
Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.