Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
as Stephen King has said, “kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“strong opinions, weakly held.”
Kim Scott • Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
what iconic writer Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The girl in cotton bodice and her jeans gone fugitive at the knees.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
In some respects, Atwater’s various tics and habitual gestures were designed to physicalize his consciousness and to keep him from morbid abstractions like this—he wasn’t going to have a stroke, he wouldn’t have to look at the painting or listen to the idiot tune over and over until a maid came in the next morning and found him.
David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
Capture someone else’s interpretation.
Bob Doto • A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
“Basically—I empathize.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
He was slender, and in the room’s bright lighting he looked pale in a way that seemed luminous instead of sickly, and had a steel-colored crew cut and a sort of pronounced facial bone structure. Overall, he looked to me like someone in an archaic photo or daguerreotype.