If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. – Katharine Butler Hathaway

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer