12.2.09
“…when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same kind of fear-based reaction. People would say, ‘Aren’t you afraid you’re never going to have any success? Aren’t you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren’t you afraid that you’re going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing ever’s going to come of it and you’re going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams with your mouth filled with the bitter ash of failure?’ The short answer to all those questions is ‘Yes.’ – I am afraid of all those things.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, as heard at TED
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