Year Book Quotes

12 quotes from 9 authors

A year‑book captures a single page a day, and even a dozen snippets can hint at a larger story. These 12 voices recall school photos, diary moments, and a quirky publishing anecdote, showing how tiny records stitch memory. If you crave deeper archives, check out the ‘Memory Keeping’ and ‘Personal Journaling’ collections, or dig into ‘Creative Writing’ for longer narratives.

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Picture I found in my High school senior year book..Missing High school..

Anonymous

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“I mean he was mostly a Year Book kind of handsome guy.”

J. D. Salinger

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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

Doris Lessing

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My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.

Ray Romano

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“Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball…

Dennis Vickers

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'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere…

Josh Gondelman

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If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good…

Jackie Collins

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“I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if…

J.D. Salinger

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“I have a fond daydream of a day when, like normal, unclutterd folks, I can bring people through my house without hesitation,…

Eve O. Schaub

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I've started to see records as just a snapshot, a portrait of where you were at at that time. And if you're…

Benji Madden

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A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in…

Sue Grafton

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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound.…

Elizabeth Chandler

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