Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
She came into your life through an air-conditioner vent and how she will leave is the question that keeps you awake in the few free moments you have to sleep.
Ann Patchett • Bel Canto (P.S.)
The natural world is the rock on which these stories are built, and its overbearing presence informs every sentence.
Ann Patchett • These Precious Days: Essays
the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.
Celeste Ng • Everything I Never Told You
a Mallen streak in his hair behind his right ear.
Sarah Hall • The Wolf Border
But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
(Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.)
Ann Patchett • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Antonio Tabucchi’s novel Sostiene Pereira.