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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Margaret Atwood
Rivers, Needs, Nerves
Margaret Atwood (2006). “Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005”, p.106, Basic Books
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.