Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas

think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
John Howe • Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)


Rincewind formed a mental picture of some strange entity living in a castle made of teeth. It was the kind of mental picture you tried to forget. Unsuccessfully.
Terry Pratchett • The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2) (Discworld series)

dreamed I was a thousand birds,” he said at last.