Notebook famous quotes

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Notebook #Memories #Prayer

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
-- Albert Einstein

#Love #Life #Notebook

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Notebook #Eye #Blue

People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
-- Alice Munro

#Notebook #Reading #Knowing

Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
-- Ally Carter

#Notebook #House #Parent

The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over.
-- Alyssa Milano

#Notebook #Breakup #Love You

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
-- Ansel Adams

#Notebook #Photography #Photographer

I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Notebook #Writing #Cutting

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
-- Anthony Minghella

#Notebook #Writing #Expectations

When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.
-- Archibald Geikie

#Notebook #Holiday #Autumn

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Notebook #Writing #Silence

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Notebook #African American #Pages

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.
-- Bharati Mukherjee

#Notebook #Growing Up #Couple

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook.
-- Bill Cosby

#Notebook #Father #School

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.
-- Billy Collins

#Notebook #Writing #Doors

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Notebook #Technology #Simple

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
-- Bronislaw Malinowski

#Notebook #Beach #Garden

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe
-- Bruce Chatwin

#Notebook #Worry #Passports

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
-- Chad Harbach

#Notebook #Running #Block

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."
-- Channing Tatum

#Notebook #Wife #Promise

Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
-- Charles de Lint

#Notebook #Growing Up #Artist

I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.
-- Charles de Lint

#Notebook #Running #Writing

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
-- Charles de Lint

#Notebook #Real #Character

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
-- Charles Ghigna

#Notebook #Writing #Night

A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
-- Cherrie Moraga

#Notebook #Writing #Gay

Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.
-- Christopher Hitchens

#Notebook #Christian #Odds

I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Notebook #Writing #Keys

When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.
-- Clay Aiken

#Notebook #Mother #Kids

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.
-- Colm Toibin

#Notebook #Writing #Long

The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.
-- Colm Toibin

#Notebook #Writing #Hands

The first song I wrote was called "You" and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist. I remember them all because I used to always write terrible poetry. I keep all my notebooks.
-- Courtney Barnett

#Notebook #Song #Writing

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Notebook #Writing #Talking

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
-- Dani Shapiro

#Notebook #Feelings #Pages

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.
-- Daniel H. Pink

#Notebook #Writing #Design

For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means 'place where I have collected passages from some of the most important books I have read.
-- Daniel Handler

#Notebook #Mean #Long

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.
-- Daniel Handler

#Notebook #Thinking #Bed

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.
-- Daniil Kharms

#Notebook #Writing #Holiday

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.
-- Dav Pilkey

#Notebook #Children #Silly

She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
-- David Nicholls

#Notebook #Coffee #Believe

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.
-- David Simon

#Notebook #Writing #Average

I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
-- Dennis Crowley

#Notebook #Writing #Pockets

I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: “I can’t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheets”. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.
-- Emma Forrest

#Notebook #Hair #Signatures

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
-- Erica Jong

#Notebook #Dream #Morning

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Notebook #Paris #Waiting

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Notebook #Paris #Pencils

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Notebook #Coffee #Writing

I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
-- Estelle

#Notebook #Song #Crazy

It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Notebook #Artist #Essence

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
-- F. Sionil José

#Notebook #House #Cameras

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
-- Fergie

#Notebook #Cry

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
-- Fergie

#Notebook #Ideas #Perfect

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.
-- Ferran Adria

#Notebook #Jobs #Creativity

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
-- Frances Mayes

#Notebook #Color #Sky

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.
-- Freya Stark

#Notebook #Pain #Journey

I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.
-- George A. Romero

#Notebook #Fun #Silly

I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.
-- Giada De Laurentiis

#Notebook #Writing #Thinking

I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.
-- Gloria Reuben

#Notebook #Uplifting #Home

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need. The thing is, all that time you spend logging and then curating the quotidian aspects of your daily life is time taken away from actually doing things.
-- Graydon Carter

#Notebook #Memories #Taken

Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians stand by ready with cameras and notebooks to make sure every novel detail is safe for the record. The tradition of the new has reduced all other traditions to triviality...
-- Harold Rosenberg

#Notebook #Art #Future

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
-- Helmut Newton

#Notebook #Writing #Thinking

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Notebook #Moving #Half

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Notebook #Fighting #Long

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
-- J. K. Rowling

#Notebook #Writing #Ideas

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.
-- J. Lynn

#Notebook #Girl #Romance

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
-- J. R. Moehringer

#Notebook #Baseball #Football

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
-- Jack Kerouac

#Notebook #Joy #Secret

Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.
-- James Nares

#Notebook #Heart #Keys

The eye is the notebook of the poet.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Notebook #Eye #Literature

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.
-- Jami Attenberg

#Notebook #Morning #Thinking

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
-- Janeane Garofalo

#Notebook #Writing #Strikes

She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in a bottle. 'Never let a man stay the night,' she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.' The night magic sounded lovely. Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after.
-- Janet Fitch

#Notebook #Writing #Night

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.
-- Jarvis Cocker

#Notebook #Ideas #Littles

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
-- Jay-Z

#Notebook #Running #Writing

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
-- Jean-Luc Godard

#Notebook #Trying #Cameras

Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.
-- Jen-Hsun Huang

#Notebook #Energy #Kepler

If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.
-- Jo Coudert

#Notebook #Meaningful #Running

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
-- Joan Didion

#Notebook #Lonely #Children

Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
-- Joan Didion

#Notebook #Daughter #Lonely

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
-- John Battelle

#Notebook #Smart #Phones

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.
-- John Taylor Gatto

#Notebook #Teacher #Moving

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
-- John Varvatos

#Notebook #Inspiration #Writing

When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.
-- Jonathan Raban

#Notebook #Memories #Home

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.
-- Julia Cameron

#Notebook #Fruit #Firsts

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.
-- Julie Ann Dawson

#Notebook #Block #Stress

I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.
-- Kanye West

#Notebook #Opening Up #Giving

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
-- Karlie Kloss

#Notebook #Dream #Ideas

The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work.
-- Kenneth Ring

#Notebook #Becoming #Serious

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.
-- Kevin Gates

#Notebook #Two #People

And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.
-- Lakshmi Pratury

#Notebook #Dad #Father

The only crush I have is on Chris Colfer. I’m madly in love with him… I just, like, I doodle in my prop notebooks, ‘I heart Chris Colfer’ over and over and over again.
-- Lea Michele

#Notebook #Crush #Heart

The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.
-- Lee Smolin

#Notebook #Real #Numbers

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.
-- Libba Bray

#Notebook #Ideas #Heaven

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
-- Linwood Barclay

#Notebook #School #Stories

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 handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!
-- Lionel Trilling

#Life #Notebook #Hate

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

#Notebook #Journalism #Reason

She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when she didn't have a notebook it was hard for her to think. The thoughts came slowly, as though they had to squeeze through a tiny door to get to her, whereas when she wrote, they flowed out faster than she could put them down. She sat very stupidly with a blank mind until finall 'I feel different' came slowly to her mind. Yes, she thought, after a long pause. And then, after more time, 'Mean, I feel mean.
-- Louise Fitzhugh

#Notebook #Mean #Thinking

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it will be in the end. There is not much deliberateness about it.
-- Lydia Davis

#Notebook #Writing #Stories

If I'm writing... even a piece of a song... I write it down. If it still resonates six months down the line, a year, even five, those are the ones you put in your bag and you take to the studio. You come to realize, the ones that don't make it, they were only meant to live for that moment in your notebook or on the 4-track-and plenty of songs never get any farther than the 4-track.
-- M. Ward

#Notebook #Song #Writing

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.
-- Maira Kalman

#Notebook #Dream #Travel

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.
-- Mandy Moore

#Notebook #Writing #Mind