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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. 'Inspirat..
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I love the Unsuggester, a feature of the books site librarything.com: enter a book you've recently read, and it'll provide a list of titles least likely to appear alongside it on other people's bookshelves. Tell it you're a fan of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and it'll suggest you read Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. And maybe you should.
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If I had my life over I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death ... without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. - Inspector Mortimer in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori
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