Ernest Hemingway, this is the mentality https://t.co/LUKBdVQyaU
THE ARTIST LEARNS TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON * * * Every work resists you. It wrestles against you like an alligator. It kicks and bucks you like a bronco. The artist learns to "sit chilly," as the renowned equestrienne Sue Sally Hale used to say. He answers the bell every round. He refuses to go down. He will keep the pressure on week after
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Because the most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
It taught me a lesson too. The difference between a “writer” and “somebody who writes” is the difference between showing up on a schedule and only showing up when you’re inspired. If you insist on always loving the craft, you’ll quit in the face of turmoil.
David Perell • I Hate Writing
Work is the soul of creation. Work is getting up early and going home late, turning down dates and giving up weekends, writing and rewriting, reviewing and revising, rote and routine, staring down the doubt of the blank page, beginning when we do not know where to start, and not stopping when we cannot go on. It is not fun, romantic, or, most of th
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