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“I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“————— The key to finding inner remarkability is to think about what makes something interesting, surprising, or novel. Can the product do something no one would have thought possible (such as blend golf balls like Blendtec)? Are the consequences of the idea or issue more extreme than people ever could have imagined? One way to generate surprise is by breaking a pattern people have come to expect.”
― Jonah Berger, Contagious: Why Things Catch On

“But inspiration is still sitting there right beside me, and it is trying. Inspiration is trying to send me messages in every form it can—through dreams, through portents, through clues, through coincidences, through déjà vu, through kismet, through surprising waves of attraction and reaction, through the chills that run up my arms, through the hair that stands up on the back of my neck, through the pleasure of something new and surprising, through stubborn ideas that keep me awake all night long . . . whatever works. Inspiration is always trying to work with me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear