Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit…

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

— Dennis Brown

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

— Claude Monet

If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully…

— Umair Haque

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a…

— Lauren Oliver

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and…

— Alicia Ostriker

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

— Michael Finkel

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be…

— Alan Alda