There is nearly no end to the things people collect.

See, collecting is the fuel of the creative mind.

After so much collection, just light it up and watch your collections burn with imagination.

I watch my ideas mesh in Evernote where I can sort, categorize, and easily find them.

There’s not as big of a difference between collecting and creating as you might think. A lot of the writers I know see the act of reading and the act of writing as existing on opposite ends of the same spectrum: The reading feeds the writing, which feeds the reading. “I’m basically a curator,” says the writer and former bookseller Jonathan Lethem.

-Austin Kleon, Show Your Work

You should start collecting things too.

Collecting leads to creativity, and who knows were creativity will take you – that’s kind of the point.