Quotes by Notebook 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 pages feelings 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 design writing 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 bed thinking 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 long-ago notebook mean Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else. Daniel Handler notebook writing past 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 holiday notebook writing 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 silly children I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me. David Foster Wallace notebook figures trying 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 was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry. Denis notebook serious littles I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare. Dennis Crowley notebook pockets writing The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country... I was really astounded that some people were shocked. Doris Lessing notebook country people [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 notebook men thinking 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 notebook children school Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross notebook treasure spiritual ... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward notebook beautiful lying 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 vogue-magazine notebook hair People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. Eminem notebook asking people 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 «1234567891011»