When you create a world on the blank page, you’re unshackled from the limitations of reality and free to express anything you can imagine. You selectively shape memories, carve details, and build narrative monuments of self-expression.
The one that was most effective for me was using Evernote. A few days after finishing a book, I’ll grab it off of my shelf, and create a file in Evernote where I put an image of the book, and an Amazon Link. Then I’ll type out all of the quotes that I want to be able to access. Many of the author quotes in my Medium articles are the result of this process. I also use quotes for every writing session. Since your brain makes progress towards a goal based on the perceived distance to that goal, starting every writing session with a quote reduces the perceived distance.