Steven Pressfield

I take a little break and then I come back and start again for another hour.

I enjoy the sort of the ritual of it and the craziness of it, you know?

That's what I hate.

I don't want to do that at all.

It almost never comes up, the inner critic.

Again, it used to.

You know, used to all the time.

It was a terrible struggle I had for years.

You know, you sit down and you think, well, is Hemingway, would Hemingway write this sentence, you know, right?

Or, you know, what will the New York Times think when I write, you know?

But eventually over time you learn you just can't deal with that bullshit.

You know, it drives you insane.

You know, so no, I don't let that inner critic come in, you know.

And I'm definitely a believer, you know,

At the end of the day, I never read what I wrote, and I never look back on it the next day.

I believe in multiple – somebody taught me this one time, that think in multiple drafts.

This was Jack Epps, the writer of – the original writer of Top Gun.

I was working for him on a movie project.

And he said, always think in multiple drafts.

And you can only fix so much in one draft.