Category Archives: Inspiration

An Excerpt from The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

The fol­low­ing is from The Far­ther Reaches of Human Nature (Viking Press, 1971) by the psy­chol­o­gist Abra­ham H. Maslow, as quoted in Sex­ist Stereo­types and Arche­types: What to Do With Them/ What the Writ­ing Woman Can Hope For by Jean­nette M. Hop­per:
“I have learned recently (through my stud­ies of peak expe­ri­ences) to look at women …

August 25, 2009 – 8:36 am | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Abraham H. Maslow, Inspiration, Writing, feminism | Comments (0)

Excerpts on the Artist’s Way from The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The fol­low­ing excerpts on the artist’s bat­tle­fied are from The War of Art by Steven Press­field, who wrote Gates of Fire (NYTimes Best­seller) and The Leg­end of Bag­ger Vance (NYTimes Best­seller).
(The bold on text is my own. )
A Pro­fes­sional
Some­one once asked Som­er­set Maugham if he wrote on a sched­ule or only when struck by inspi­ra­tion. “I write …

August 19, 2009 – 7:18 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Inspiration, Professionalism, Steven Pressfield, War, Writing | Tagged , | Comments (0)