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B reak Through the Blocks a nd Win Your
Inner Creative Battles
S TEVEN PRESSFIELD
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C opyright © 2002 by Stephen Pressfield
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F irst Warner Book Edition: April 2003
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T he Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
P ressfield, Stephen
T he war of art : winning the inner creative battle / Stephen Pressfield; foreword by Robert McKee.—1st ed. p . cm.
I S B N 1-59071-003-7
1 . Creative ability. 2. Creative thinking. 3. Authorship. I. Title.
B F408.P74 2002 153.3*5
QB102-701260
I SBN: 0-446-69143-7 (pbk.)
Cover design by Brigid Pearson
Cover illustration by Milton Glaser
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theWARofART
FOREWORD by Robert McKee
S
teven Pressfield wrote The
War of Art for me. He
u ndoubtedly wrote it for you too, but I know he did it
e x p r e s s l y for me b e c a u s e I hold O l y m p i c r e c o r d s for p r o c r a s t i n a t i o n . I can p r o c r a s t i n a t e thinking a b o u t my p rocrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with m y problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem. So Pressfield, that devil, asked me to write this foreword against a deadline, k