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Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles Quotes: ...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
         

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.


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