Feeling > Thinking

As much as we know about how crazy, weird, talented, and insightful people can be, we are blind to perhaps 99.99999999% of it. The most prolific over-sharers disclose maybe a thousandth of one percent of what they’ve been through and what they’re thinking.

Morgan Housel • How People Think

I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.

Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments

As for how to write well, here's the short version: Write a bad version 1 as fast as you can; rewrite it over and over; cut out everything unnecessary; write in a conversational tone; develop a nose for bad writing, so you can see and fix it in yours; imitate writers you like; if you can't get started, tell someone what you plan to write about, the... See more

And if there’s one thing I know it’s that writing comes out of tension, tension between what’s inside and what’s outside.

Rachel Cusk • Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)

I’m oppressed by the very self that encases me,

Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)

simply sharing who you are in public makes you a magnet for others who vibrate on the same frequency. you don’t even need to market yourself or do anything particularly overt—just exist publicly. share your thoughts. publish your creations. curate your taste. make yourself known!

Isabel️x.com

"Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final."

(Rainer Maria Rilke)