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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

— Lauren Groff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

— Barry Lopez

Writing is inherently scary.

— Jonathan Galassi

I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

— Rick Riordan

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Anne Rice

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

— William Styron

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

— Charles Frazier

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.

— Bonnie Hunt