The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

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.

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

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

The amateur tweets. The pro works.

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