No art ever came out of not risking your neck.
All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
A thing is incredible, if ever, only after it is told -- returned to the world it came out of.
If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.