“So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 6, “The Price of Remembering” (p. 49)
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American fantasy writer 1973Related quotes
"The Shadowland of Dreams"', published in Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work (1996) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte and Tim Clauss; also in Alex Haley : The Man Who Traced America's Roots (2007), a collection of stories and essays by Haley published in Reader's Digest between 1954 to 1991.
Context: Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Pastor Jón Prímus
Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)
[10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
"Voices Carry"
Song lyrics, Voices Carry (1985)
Context: I try so hard not to get upset
Because I know all the trouble Ill get
Oh, he tells me tears are something to hide
And something to fear
And I try so hard to keep it inside
So no one can hear.