I started a novel in the back of a notebook, and it was great because it looked like I was taking notes.… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all… — Fergie Copy Share Image
When I'm filling notebooks I'm trying to pin down what I'm really interested in and to find those details that are so… — James Salter Copy Share Image
've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul;… — Noah Copy Share Image
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Carrying a small notebook with you always, in your pocket or purse, along with a reliable ballpoint pen will enable you to… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because… — Kou Shibasaki Copy Share Image
Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about.… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes,… — Julie Gayet Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject… — Kenneth Ring Copy Share Image
I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
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