Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

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.

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.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.