Steven Pressfield Quotes
When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.
Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.
The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.
