When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

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.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.