Quotes by Steven Pressfield

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Novelist · American · 1943

American novelist (born 1943)

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“A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.”
— Steven Pressfield
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“No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.”
— Steven Pressfield
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“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.”
— Steven Pressfield
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“It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.”
— Steven Pressfield
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