Notebook Quotes
217 quotes by 184 authors
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
— Virginia Woolf
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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And don’t worry.†Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the…
— Nora Roberts
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.…
— David Nicholls
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It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd…
— MaryJanice Davidson
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This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Do you want to guess what's in here?" I asked Dash. "I think I've got it figured out already. There's a new supply of red…
— Rachel Cohn
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If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
— Virginia Woolf
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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne…
— Emma Forrest
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They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her…
— Kami Garcia
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Not to find one's way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one's way in a city, as one loses one's way…
— Walter Benjamin
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When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
— Virginia Woolf
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The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that…
— Rachel Cohn
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She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.
— Cassandra Clare
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It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in…
— Charles de Lint
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..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was…
— John Green
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Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step.…
— Natalie Goldberg
Who Wrote These Notebook Quotes
184 authors contributed a total of 217 Notebook Quotes, led by these top contributors: