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It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

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About Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield (born September 1, 1943) is an American author of historical fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays, including his 1995 novel The Legend of Bagger Vance and 2002 nonfiction book The War of Art.