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

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come. The professional is sly. He knows that by toiling beside the front door of technique, he leaves room for genius to enter by the back.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.