Steven Pressfield:

"I'm a believer in the muse and I believe that projects come to us almost like assignments and that we have to follow them, or at least that's my theory. I only want to write what I want to write. Not everybody does that. A lot of people like to write for hire, but in that case, again, not only can't we control our level of talent, I believe, but we can't even control what we're gonna work on. I've always said that the books that I've written, I never knew I was gonna write them before I wrote them."