Desks Quote by Jonathan Raban

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Gord Downie

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

— Emil Ferris

“Write it down. Not just to remember it, but to forget it in the right way. My notebook are a kind of materialized subconscious,…

— Ivan Vladislavić

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

— Lionel Trilling

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

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but…

— John Darnielle

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you…

— Will Self

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

— Noah Baumbach

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing…

— Zadie Smith

I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

— Gretchen Rubin