Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
If we’re honest, most of us can’t really say with certainty whether our ideas are truly original or merely a variation on something that’s already circulating through our culture.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before,
Tommy Orange • There There: A novel
You can steal a plot.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
In 2003, Tharp admitted in her book The Creative Habit that she is not as original as people think. She is, in fact, a thief.
Jeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
Good writers borrow, great writers steal, Jake was thinking. That ubiquitous phrase was attributed to T. S. Eliot (which didn’t mean Eliot hadn’t, himself, stolen it!),
Jean Hanff Korelitz • The Plot
