Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?" They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

Steven Pressfield
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  2. I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

  3. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening

  4. Happiness is the china shop love is the bull. - H.l. Mencken

  5. People say that eyes are windows to the soul. - Khaled Hosseini

More Quotes By Steven Pressfield
  1. A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

  2. A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

  3. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

  4. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

  5. Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

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