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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I am phobic about it. So when I am writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that is your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you are never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

I will think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That is the only fear I have for myself.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

I did not fear failure. I expected failure.

I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.

I do love to be a dad. I hope I do be great at it. That is every man fear, yet his most important job.

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

See, the On the Road that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - You must live life this way - and these guys were bored.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Do not fear the terrorists. They are mothers and fathers.