“forward is everything. You know Hunter S. Thompson rewrote the Great Gatsby just so he could feel what it was like to Write a great novel.”
Books mentioned in How to Write Absurdly Good Stories (Steven Pressfield Interview)
From How I Write · 2023-11-22
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“of the box. The Legend of Bagger Vance and Gates of Fire. Yep. And I'm now on my like 24th book or something like that. So I hope it's not plateauing. I'm certainly working”
“of the box. The Legend of Bagger Vance and Gates of Fire. Yep. And I'm now on my like 24th book or something like that. So I hope it's not plateauing. I'm certainly working”
“The Sun Also Rises or something? So I sat down for like about two hours. And just wrote a bunch of crap that I just threw away immediately. And I went back to the kitchen, and there”
“with The Godfather? Maybe just because that was a real story, you know. It didn't have layers that you could cut off, you know. Um. Whereas, uh, Bagger”
“hold on here, hold on. Peter Thiel wrote Zero to One. But if you actually follow the thread, Zero to One is... A Christian book, specifically the first commandment”
“this? And, and the War of Art and other... Now, the War of Art and books that are about writing, I sort of have the ideas clear in my mind”
“be a woman. In Moby Dick, the sea is the female, and the sea carries the mystery, right? That's the, the whale dives down into the sea. Uh, in”
“you've never heard of called Tides of War. That's a, a long, really ambitious book about the Peloponnesian War. A historical novel about the war between Athens”
“Of course, yeah, he had laws of power and everything. I mean, his story is very much like mine, you know? Where he worked a million crazy”
“guy who wrote Save the Cat, uh, Blake Snyder. Um, and what he meant by that was that, again, he was talking about screenwriting, he was talking about movies, and he was saying that,”
“that I learned this from was called The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sager. Great book. Anybody that's watching this. And it's about, it's supposedly a true story.”
“idea was Ryan Holiday, who wrote, uh, The Daily Stoic. We were going to a political event and he said, you know, you've got so much content. He says, you've, you've got”