

“The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”.“Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five.”.“It was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”.The life we live, and the unlived life within us. “What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.”.“It’s not the writing part that’s hard.The power to take charge is in your hands all you had to do is believe it.“The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.”.“The awakening artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.”.“If you take Resistance at its word, you deserve everything you get.”.Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.” We experience it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential. “Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled.Most of us have two lives: The life we live before we turn pro and the life after.Resistance is what keeps us from sitting down and doing our best work.
