Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t Quotes

“A real writer (or artist or entrepreneur) has something to give. She has lived enough and suffered enough and thought deeply enough about her experience to be able to process it into something that is of value to others, even if only as entertainment. A fake writer (or artist or entrepreneur) is just trying to draw attention to himself. The word “fake” may be too unkind. Let’s say “young” or “evolving.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“It’s okay to be an introvert, to seek out the quiet corners at a cocktail party, to care about quality, to have your mood be affected by your surroundings.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“At the beginning, the author's writing was like a selfie: a disposable plea for attention that was all about him and his life. But since he hadn't done much living, there wasn't much substance.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“All of a sudden I understood why I was so moody, neurotic, simultaneously paranoid and megalomaniac, mistrustful, uneasy, driven by ambition but paralyzed by guilt about my ambition, horny, obsessive, compulsive, obsessive-compulsive, not to mention shy, withdrawn, and dandruff-ridden. I was creative. All creative people were like that!”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“My role-options in life and career, I realized, were not limited to Businessman, Athlete, and Boneheaded Patriot.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“What’s the genre? What’s the theme? What’s the climax? Who’s the hero? Who’s the villain? What are the stakes? What is the jeopardy? Exactly as with writing a screenplay, I started at the end and worked backward. Are you a CEO preparing a speech for your stockholders? Write it like a novel or a movie. Use the principles of storytelling. Write your Ph.D. dissertation the same way. And your grant proposal. And your plea to your landlord not to raise your rent. Stories work. Tell it to me as a story.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

“A real writer (or artist or entrepreneur) has something to give. She has lived enough and suffered enough and thought deeply enough about her experience to be able to process it into something that is of value to others, even if only as entertainment.”
― Steven Pressfield, Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It