"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."

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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."

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"Then the dwarves forgot their joy and their confident boasts of a moment before and cowered down in fright. Smaug was still to be reckoned with. It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"So many horrid Ghosts."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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