Five Quote by John Darnielle

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

— Emil Ferris

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

— Gord Downie

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Lionel Trilling

“I go through about half a dozen spiral notebooks a year. They are my friends, just like the to-do lists. They keep me organized.”

— David R. Wommack

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

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop…

— Joan Didion

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

— Noah Baumbach

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

— Frank McCourt

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my…

— Lionel Trilling

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

— John Gregory Dunne

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