Notebook Quotes

• You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Stay Strong, Hurt

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Should

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• Sometimes strange and wonderful things will pop into my head. And sometimes I will see something in the world that is the beginning of a story. I always have a notebook with me so that I can write down what I see and hear.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Writing, Stories, World

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Girl, Guy

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• 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

  Thinking, Bed, Events

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• I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

  J. K. Rowling

  Character, Names, Suits

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• Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

  Peter McWilliams

  Peace, Writing, Special

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

  Karlie Kloss

  Dream, Ideas, Goal

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• The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

  Seth Godin

  Fancy, Instinct, Great Work

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• Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

  Will Self

  Mean

  "Will Self's rules for writers". www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

  Karlie Kloss

  Couple, Goal, Needs

  "So This Is Karlie Kloss's Secret to Hyper Productivity". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Sep 15, 2013

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• I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

  Max Levchin

  Crazy, Ideas, Massive

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• Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

  Lily King

  Writing, School, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  James Russell Lowell

  Eye, Literature, Poet

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• She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Passion, Simple

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 16, 2012

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• Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Silly, Writing, Ideas

  "Michael Morpurgo's five top tips for writing" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2011.

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• 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

  Writing, Night, Two

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• 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

  Running, Block, Moving

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• 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

  Writing, Weather, Keys

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Heart, Enough, Notebook Love

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• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Best Friend, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Oct 31, 2011

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• We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Beautiful, Memories

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• You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Men, Different

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.92, Hachette UK

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