"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

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"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

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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

Fear, Caution, Fight, Survival

"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

Fear, Death, Reality, Courage

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Mind, Society, Doubt

"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Fear, Deprives, Existence, Loss

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

Fear, Mystery, Danger

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fear, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"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

Fear, Survival, Warning, Life

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fear, Opportunity, Growth, Change

"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

Fear, Ignorance, Consequences, Love

"So many horrid Ghosts."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Fear, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

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"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."

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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

Thought

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Thought

"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"

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"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."

Question

"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."

Philosophy

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

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"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."

Dream