Steven Pressfield Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Writing, Positive Thinking

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: 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.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Writing, Secret

• If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hurt, Children, Cancer

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

• Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Editors

• Someone once asked Somerset Maughham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by inspiration. "I write only when inspiration strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

  Steven Pressfield

  Morning, Inspiration, Writing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.64, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you,” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

  Steven Pressfield

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.112, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Oxford, Ancient

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

• Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.

• A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Artist, Genius

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.21, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Symphony, Tomorrow

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.21, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Sitting Down, Sitting

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.19, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

• Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Night, Entrepreneur

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.20, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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