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“I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.”

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Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.”

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Author:Sue Grafton

“To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.”

Needs Light Process Challenges Worry Anxiety Filled Caught Bedroom Items Suitcases Packing

Author:Laura Marano

“A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits' end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them.”

Source: Typee: A Romance of the South Seas (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)

“You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.”

Kind Energy Process Anxiety Built All Kinds

Author:Meryl Streep

“Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.”

Ifs Writing Process Anxiety Scared Inevitable Writing Process

Book:The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Source: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

“The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.”

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Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“One of the ways that we cope with anxiety is by over planning and over controlling. If we know where it's going to, we can just relax and do it. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's not the way it works. The story doesn't want to be told what to do. You have to enter into this process with a high level of trust that the many hours of choosing that you're doing every day will gradually clarify the narrative for you. And that's what happens.”

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Author:George Saunders

“If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments of deep despair and anxiety, and then there are moments in rehearsal that are the most exhilarating; feeling seen and seeing everybody. Feeling like you have a purpose on the planet. A huge part of the process I enjoy is watching the actors figuring out what they can handle and what they can take and what they need from the director and me.”

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Author:Annie Baker

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”

Process Letting Go Anxiety Empty Abundance

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.”

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Author:Jessica Stern

“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”

Way Should Seems Desire Process Goal Awareness Promise Anxiety Overcoming Strive Definitions Resolution Respite

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.”

Source: Yanni in Words

“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

Order Social Process Media Anxiety Increase Whips Undermining Multiplying

Book:Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God

Source: Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God