Notebooks Quotes

66 Notebooks quotes by 61 unique authors

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 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
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
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life… — John Irving
Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep. — Hilary Mantel
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks. — Viggo Mortensen
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I… — Walter Dean Myers
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 have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. — David Foster Wallace
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
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 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
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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