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"I’ve seen a million writers with talent. It means nothing. You need guts, you need stick-to-it-iveness. It’s work, you gotta work, do the freakin’ work. That’s why you’re gonna make it, son. You work. No one can take that away from you."
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Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Stephen Pressfield is the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and historical novels including Gates of Fire. His struggles to earn a living as a writer (it took 17 years to get his first paycheck) are detailed in The War of Art. His excerpt in this book is from Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way. Copyright 2011. Reprinted
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A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pains he endures for their sake.
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RESISTANCE IS INTERNAL