Quote by Joan Didion

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some…

— Joan Didion

“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.”

— Kate Furnivall

“I love entering the private world that each writer gives us through their books”

— MBarreto Condado

A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play…

— Ralph Fletcher

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

— Emil Ferris

“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

— John Green

“When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new…

— Anonymous

“From earliest childhood I was charmed by the materials of my craft, by pencils and paper and, later, by the typewriter and the entire…

— John Updike

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

— Lionel Trilling

“Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I…

— Paula Huntley

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi