Notebook Quotes - Page 11

• When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

  Nicole Blackman

  Pages, Manuscripts

  Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books

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• It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Years, People

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.323, Random House

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• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Men, Perfect

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

  Nandan Nilekani

  World, Four, Flats

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• 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

  Two, People, Giving

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• At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reading, Choices, Black

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• 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

  Real, Character, People

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• 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

  Memories, Taken, Past

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Ideas, Perfect, Let It Go

  "Fergie teases 'notebooks full of ideas' for new music" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. September 14, 2012.

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• My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

  Walt Whitman

  Home, Writing, Together

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• 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

  Writing, Doors, Balls

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

  Linwood Barclay

  School, Stories, Handwriting

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• 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

  House, Parent, Stories

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• 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

  Writing, Stories, Ends

  "Lydia Davis hints at move to microblogging fiction" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.

  Naomi Novik

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

  Fighting, Long, Pockets

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Silence, Advantage

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.

  Sharon Olds

  Rocks, Pockets, Ordinary

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• With the notebook resting ominuslously on Janie's bed, Janie procrastinates. Does her homework first. And pours herself a bowl of ceral. Breakfast - one of the five most important meals of the day. Not to be skipped.

  Lisa McMann

  Important, Bed, Doe

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• 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

  Children, Silly, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line.” “You’re a treasure, Bob.” She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Laughing, Worry

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.231, Penguin

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• Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.

  Stephen Wolfram

  Change, Running, Firsts

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• The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

  Rachel Cohn

  Mom, Dad, Grandpa

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.212, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.

  Cassandra Clare

  Simple, Evil, Luck

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2191, Simon and Schuster

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