Notebook Quotes

217 quotes by 184 authors

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening.… — Michael Palin
I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun. — George A. Romero
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can… — Will Self
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great… — Paul Theroux
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline,… — Al Yankovic
I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.… — Colm Toibin
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively â€“ for the first time in a long, long while â€“ by slipping… — Hunter S. Thompson
She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. Youâ€™re writing that down? Has the interview started?â€ Lee, whenever youâ€™re talking to a reporter, youâ€™re being interviewed. — Curtis Sittenfeld
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. — David Foster Wallace
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I… — John Green
People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going… — Alice Munro
They didnâ€™t agree on much. In fact, they didnâ€™t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite… — Nicholas Sparks
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but… — Bill Bryson
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. — Nicholas Sparks
To lose a passport was the least of oneâ€™s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe — Bruce Chatwin
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when… — Louise Fitzhugh
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or… — Daniel Handler

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