Notebook Quotes - Page 9

• Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

  John Larroquette

  Reading, Ideas, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.

  Elaine Equi

  Children, School, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think when you're drinking you don't have the clarity to think about things. It's not easy to talk about obviously but I think quitting drinking was one of the most important decisions I've ever made for myself. It's not easy, especially when I'm touring and everyone is partying and I'm backstage playing Scrabble or drawing in my notebook because I'm a total nerd now.

  Marissa Nadler

  Party, Drinking, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Frank McCourt

  Writing, Years

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• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Years, Shining, Genius

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• I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

  Al Yankovic

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, Loss, Archives

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• 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

  Song, Crazy, Writing

  "How Estelle headed to the US and scored her first No. 1". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2008.

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• Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Use, World, Breathe

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• There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

  Lily Koppel

  Hopeful, Waiting

  "Dear Diary...I Want to be Famous" by Lily Koppel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2008.

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• I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.

  George A. Romero

  Fun, Silly, Zombie

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• When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

  Dani Shapiro

  Feelings, Pages

  "Dani Shapiro: 7 Places Where Your Pain Hides" by Dani Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2013.

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• 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

  Writing, Holiday, Advice

  Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press

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• My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

  Jason Aldean

  Dad, Teaching, Guitar

  "A-T web exclusive interview with Jason Aldean". A-T Interview, www.audio-technica.com.

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• My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dog, Writing, Exercise

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• 've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas. The problem is my best ideas come while I'm driving or showering.

  Sefi Atta

  Hands, Ideas, Care

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

  Ronaldo

  Disappointment, Player, Fans

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• The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.

  Gary Louris

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print. Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing, came as a great surprise. Instantly a lot of very ancient weapons were unleashed, the main ones, as usual, being on the theme of "She is unfeminine", "She is a man-hater".

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Morning, Hate, School

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.3, Macmillan

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• 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

  Holiday, Autumn, Science

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9

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• The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  Virginia Woolf

  Teacher, Women, Learning

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.565, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does that mean?" "Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don't actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn't the object?" "No." He sat down. "Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mean, Writing, Mind

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.142, Pan Macmillan

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• I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

  Rick Riordan

  Nuts, Written, Ifs

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Father, Men, Hands

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