“I always thought that an artist’s was the hardest life of all. Its rigor—not always apparent to an outside observer—is that an artist has to navigate forward into the unknown guided only by an internal sense of direction, keep up a set of standards which are imposed entirely from within, meanwhile maintaining faith that the task he has set himself to is worth struggling constantly to achieve. This is all contrary to the notion of bohemian disorder.”
—Lucian Freud
Hey y’all,
I’m deep into writing the proposal for my next book and I’ve been thinking a lot this time around about what it takes to bring a book into the world.
One of the best ways I’ve heard it put was by Robert Greene: