"Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors.……" — Steven Pressfield
"Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors."
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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site.
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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul,…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to…
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it,…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up…
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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More Editors Quotes
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Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because…
— Robert Asprin
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In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep…
— Julian Assange
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against…
— James A. Baldwin
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're…
— Brendan Behan
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the…
— Halle Berry
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures…
— Elayne Boosler
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I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon…
— Richard Branson
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I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
— Jenna Bush
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about…
— Candace Bushnell
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Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
— Meg Cabot
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As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from…
— Graydon Carter
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There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread…
— Graydon Carter
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