Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
You must write to the people's expertise.
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.