Notebook Quotes

217 quotes by 184 authors

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O,… — Robert Breault
I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You… — Bharati Mukherjee
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain… — Cherrie Moraga
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply,… — Mavis Gallant
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander… — Natalie Goldberg
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the… — W. Eugene Smith
It is said Somerset Maugham traveled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the… — U. R. Ananthamurthy
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing… — Preston Sturges
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer. — Charles Ghigna
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense… — Phil Keoghan
The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously… — Kenneth Ring
They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's… — Alice Hoffman
A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of… — Randy Wayne White
I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling. — Fergie
When I'm in the field, when I'm working, I keep very careful notes. I wear big shirts with big breast pockets, and I carry in… — Peter Matthiessen
Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones. — Jen-Hsun Huang
My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what… — Sarah
The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home. — Steve Rubel

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184 authors contributed a total of 217 Notebook Quotes, led by these top contributors: