I have little comedy notebooks, and I also have notes in my phone, and I'll write on my laptop for longer stories. — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant re-arrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I've been slightly obsessed with paper and notebooks. Among my most precious possessions is a small light-blue, breviary-sized volume - four-and-a-half inches… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them… — John Varvatos Copy Share Image
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri 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
When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just… — John Darnielle 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
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
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 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
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes… — Paula Huntley 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
“I ask for tons of notebooks for my birthday, the ones with college ruled lines, and I carry them with me, pretend… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
“One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. “As you go about town,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
