The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.

Steven Pressfield
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  1. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there's a lot of difference. - Ernest Hemingway

  2. I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began. - Lev Grossman

  3. You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

  4. Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun. - Criss Jami

  5. My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that. - Rick Riordan

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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