Able Quote by Teju Cole

Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you…

— A.L. Kennedy

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

— Jeff Bridges

I definitely take notes, but I feel like sometimes if I take too many notes, it kind of bogs down my mind a little…

— Sam Darnold

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 often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

— Miguel McKelvey

On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“A wise business practice is to become a prolific note-taker if you aren’t already. When you’ve had a great conversation or interaction with someone—whether…

— Susan C. Young

Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established…

— George Carlin

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

— Jill McCorkle

The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of…

— Donald E. Westlake

I take notes like some people take drugs.

— Tim Ferriss