Phyllis Theroux, my favorite pen pal, sent me this wonderful quote from The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer last week. It rings especially true for writers:
“‘You must do everything that frightens you, JR. Everything. I’m not talking about risking your life, but everything else. Think about fear, decide right now how you’re going to deal with fear, because fear is going to be the great issue of your life, I promise you. Fear will be the fuel for all your success, and the root cause of all your failures, and the underlying dilemma in every story you tell yourself about yourself. And the only chance you’ll have against fear? Follow it. Steer by it. Don’t think of fear as the villain. Think of fear as your guide, your pathfinder – your Natty Bumpo.'”
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I hate to admit this but I had to look up Natty Bumppo:
Nathaniel “Natty” Bumppo is the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper‘s pentalogy of novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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