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

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.

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

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

...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)

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