Candace Bushnell Quotes

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.

As artists, we have to be brave. If we aren't brave, we aren't artists.

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.

Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.

Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.