Another damn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble…

Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?

— Duke of Gloucester Prince Henry

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

— Jonathan Shapiro

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate…

— J. K. Rowling

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Writers scribble sweet nothings in your mind...”

— Anonymous

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and…

— Glen Cook

That type of autograph, pictures and apparel thievery was not part of what I grew up with. I loved the artists and their music.…

— Davey Havok

“When I want to write something I just sit down (or stand up) and do it. Scribble, scribble, nothing could be easier. It helps,…

— Edward Abbey

We all scribble poetry.

— Homer

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at…

— Roy Blount, Jr

When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble and discard,…

— Tim Key

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow…

— Natasha Trethewey

A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and…

— Wayne Coyne

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

— Leonard Cohen