Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Journal writing is like singing in the shower—I can let ’er rip without fear of judgment.
Diana M. Raab • Writers and Their Notebooks
“My notebook is the microbial fungus of ideas and images I draw on when I’m writing,” he said when we first spoke.
Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
Taste requires originality. It invokes an aspirational authenticity. Writer George Saunders calls this “achieving the iconic space,” and it’s what he’s after when he meets his creative writing students. “They arrive already wonderful. What we try to do over the next three years is help them achieve what I call their “iconic space” — the place from ... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do, which is write — on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest, paid passage... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?