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.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Any private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

They first condemn that first advised the ill.

I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

I want my work to be judged, not me.