Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.