For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to…

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork…

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

— Bill Peet

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

— Peter Max

“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the…

— Robert Kaplan

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

— Ananya Birla

I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be…

— Sunni Brown

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

— Rebecca Miller

Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.

— Jenny Lawson

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use…

— Sunni Brown

I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so…

— Edward Norton

I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's…

— Michael Jackson

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have…

— John Hurt

And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that…

— Pete Docter

I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

— Vera Brosgol