Famous Quotes About fear

I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.