In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I… — Charles de Lint 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
When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon… — James Nares Copy Share Image
I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
'The Notebook' taught us that just because someone is perfect for you, it doesn't mean their perfect for you at that point… — Nico Copy Share Image
When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I always have a notebook - I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line,… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Buy a blank notebook. Draw a huge heart on the cover. Dont write anything negative in here. If you need another outlet,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook… — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
In a way, you normalize your own childhood to yourself, so I never thought about how much I wrote as a kid.… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image