When I have a night of fitful brainstorming, I embrace it. I open my notebook and let it all pour out. — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“Three sheets of notebook paper lay on the ground—colorful red pages with purple lines and blue stars in the corners.” — Bryan Chick Copy Share Image
Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Read widely (in and outside of your own genre), keep a notebook with you at all times. Do something that scares you… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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
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
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
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I try to remember dreams, and occasionally I'll make a note or two in a notebook if it's something extra interesting. They… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 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
My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She… — Louise Fitzhugh 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
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 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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to… — Aaron Brookner 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
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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