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Quotes About Inspiration

Fear of commitment lies behind the fear of writing.
~ Hilary Mantel
I listen to a lot of other cyber metal bands such as Fear Factory, Sybreed, and Mnemic to name a few, so it has certainly influenced my style.
~ Unknown
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.
~ Kameron Hurley, Rapture
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
~ Russell Baker
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.
~ Ken Danby
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.
~ Robertson Davies
I think fear is a very healthy motivator.
~ Chiwetel Ejiofor
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
~ Barry Mann
There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.
~ Christopher Bollen
As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear
~ Damien Hirst
You need fear to create, to live.
~ Unknown
But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.
~ Unknown
As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
How to overcome fear? Be around people who are fearless.
~ Frederick Lenz
Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.
~ Helen Keller
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
~ William Butler Yeats
That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.
~ Unknown
Fear is always a good motivator.
~ James Dyson
Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato