Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfieldis an American author, of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
passion guy gold
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to his friends. What these tales lack in artfulness they make up for in passion and authenticity. For a writer of fiction, they are solid gold. I have stolen so much from memoirs it's ridiculous.
soul important thumbs
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
masters self-mastery
Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
doe forget wholeheartedly
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
morning pages matter
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.
culture pay succeed
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you’ve sold out your Muse, and your Muse is you, the best part of yourself, where your finest and only true work comes from.
numbers dvds quality
Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.
passion conquer wells
When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.
love dream work
The opposite of fear is love - love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.
sake attention fortune
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
writing thinking internet-access
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.
lasts earth persons
Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?
world hitting would-be
But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.
resistance months foundation
Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.