The War of Art

The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.

If you're paralyzed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

The enemy of creativity Resistance, his all-encompassing term for what Freud called the Death Wish—that destructive force inside human nature that rises whenever we consider a tough, long-term course of action that might do for us or others something that's actually good.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet. It is the root of more unhappiness than poverty, disease, and erectile dysfunction. To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit.

The most common manifestation of Resistance is procrastination because it's the easiest to rationalize.

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate, falsify; seduce, bully, cajole. Resistance has no conscience.

The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.

We writers know it as 'block,' a paralysis whose symptoms can bring on appalling behavior.