Notebooks Quotes

66 quotes by 61 authors

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
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache. — Laurie Halse Anderson
When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page /… — Nicole Blackman
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a… — Wallace Stegner
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy — Jack Kerouac
When I was able to get home it first hit me that you had left and I couldn't do anything about it. Every day before… — Sophie Scholl
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want… — Charles de Lint
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
It never failedâ€”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
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
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
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
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
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment… — Joan Didion
Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. — Daniel Handler
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of… — Virginia Woolf
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
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a… — Janine di Giovanni
In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper. — Maggie Carey
I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to… — Alexa Von Tobel

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