Examining the Obvious in Great Detail
Based on some common rules-of-thumb, I’d written several books worth of email messages over the previous five years — posts to mailing lists and a ton of personal correspondence, all of which I tried to write the hell out of. Around that same time, it became obvious that the outlet I’d been waiting for was available: I needed to start my own weblog.-John Gruber
There are so many quotables in Shawn Blanc’s fantastic interview with Gruber, the prolific guru of Daring Fireball, but I knew I was in for a treat when, at the exact moment I read Gruber’s simple affirmation, “Writing is a lonely endeavor,” Three Dog Night’s One started playing from down the hall.
If you care about this kind of stuff, read the interview. It’s thoughtful and well-paced and inspiring. And if Gruber’s words weren’t enough to inspire, he shares with Shawn’s readers some of the words of Stanley Kubrick:
Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.
