Notebook Quotes

217 quotes by 184 authors

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every… — Graydon Carter
I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas… — Fergie
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think… — Allen Ginsberg
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader — Lionel Trilling
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a… — Neil Gaiman
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion… — David Simon
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed,… — Naomi Novik
My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was… — Walt Whitman
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 few drafts, I… — Billy Collins
I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. — Linwood Barclay
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories… — Ally Carter
I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will… — Lydia Davis
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I… — Richard Paul Evans
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade… — Nicole Krauss
I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five… — Nicole Krauss
The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over. — Alyssa Milano
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments… — Eugene Delacroix
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product… — Daniel H. Pink

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