Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.

Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

Be as creative in your tactics as you are in your writing. Find what gets your engine going, no matter how peculiar it may seem to others.

Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.

Authors always feel in danger of being abandoned by loved ones. This is a potent fear. Yet it's as inevitable as writer's cramp when we presume to write words for others to read.

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville.""You're practically a god.

French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question.