Karen Robinette

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art