The Knowledge
by Steven Pressfield
Pressfield's semi-autobiographical novel about his years driving a cab and struggling to write in 1970s New York, with a crime plot wrapped around it. Reads as the backstory to The War of Art.
Read it if…
you want the lived experience behind Pressfield's writing on Resistance.
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Skip it if…
you want straight craft advice.
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Three things you will actually use
- The amateur waits; the professional shows up.
- Low-status work can protect the real work.
- Resistance is most fierce near the finish.
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Read it alongside The War of Art and note where Resistance appears in the story.
Our verdict
The War of Art's backstory.
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