Dozen Quote by Richard Paul Evans

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

— Louise Erdrich

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

— Michael Dirda

've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem…

— Sefi Atta

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

— Gord Downie

“Clean this place out. I want hard drives, gadgets, papers, circuit boards, everything. Grab the pencil sharpener if it looks interesting.”

— Paul Dini

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

— Emil Ferris

I go through all of my old notebooks, and I put an X on every page when everything has been entered into the computer,…

— William T. Vollmann

No matter how many pens I buy, they always 'mysteriously' go missing.

— Anonymous

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

For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.

— Antoni Porowski

Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another…

— Roland Barthes

“For work: I bought some pens. Normally, I used makeshift pens, the kind of unsatisfactory implements that somehow materialized in my bag or in…

— Gretchen Rubin