- “Write early in the morning,
- cultivate memory,
- reread core books,
- take detailed reading notes,
- work on several projects at once,
- maintain a thick archive,
- rotate crops,
- take a weekly Sabbath,
- go to bed at the same time,
- exercise so hard you can’t think during it,
- talk to different kinds of people including the very young and very old,
- take words and their histories seriously (i.e., read dictionaries),
- step outside of the empire of the English language regularly,
- look for vocabulary from other fields,
- love the basic,
- keep your antennae tuned, and
- seek out contexts of understanding quickly (i.e., use guides, encyclopedias, and Wikipedia without guilt).”
—John Durham Peters