Notebooks 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

Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she…

— Joan Didion

“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…

— Joan Didion

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I…

— Walt Whitman

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,…

— MaryJanice Davidson

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page…

— Nicole Blackman

“scrolls, notebooks, tablet computers, daggers, and a large bowl filled with jelly beans,”

— Rick Riordan

I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I…

— David Quammen

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook.…

— Richard Paul Evans

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in…

— Patrick deWitt

All my notebooks would be filled with lyrics instead of actual notes.

— Koffee

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for…

— Graydon Carter