“The only items you get to keep are love for the work, will to finish, and passion to serve the ethical, creative… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Remember, the Muse favors working stiffs. She hates prima donnas. To the gods the supreme sin is not rape or murder, but… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow!… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“that of dealing death, of loosing another man’s soul and sending it down to hell. You want to savor it, to twist the blade… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
“I don't need to read nothing,' said the New Zealander. 'I was there.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
