The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

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.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

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