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• I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

  Sue Townsend

  House, Different, Seven

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Doors

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• I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

  Mary Oliver

  Writing, Journey, Hiking

  Interview with Renee Olander, www.awpwriter.org. September, 1994.

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• The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.

  Steve Rubel

  Home, Iphone, Information

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• For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Writing, Law Of Attraction, People

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• When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

  Michael Palin

  Eye, Trying, Watches

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• A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, World, Way

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• What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

  Marc Maron

  Writing, Sacrifice, Adults

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin today and write in it your goings and comings, your deepest thoughts, your achievements and your failures, your associations and your triumphs, your impressions and your testimonies.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Writing, Angel, Achievement

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• Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.

  Alice Munro

  Writing, Long, Giving

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• And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.

  Conor Oberst

  Heart, Mean, Artist

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• 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

  Fruit, Firsts, Clarity

  Julia Cameron, Emma Lively (2012). “The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough"”, p.17, Penguin

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• I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.

  Mavis Gallant

  Writing, Way, Should

  Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library

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• Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

  Okky Madasari

  People, Giving, Support

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• Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Facts, Leafs

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Self, Should Have, Years

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Running, Writing, School

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• Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Wall, Museums, Photographer

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• You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Play, Two

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• 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

  Writing, Talking, Interviews

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.392, Random House

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• The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

  John Green

  Teacher, Talking, Games

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Penguin

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• When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.

  Marc Maron

  New York, Guitar, Guy

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

  Sara Sheridan

  Phones, House, Laptops

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• Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

  Yukio Mishima

  Teacher, Wall, Men

  "Acts of Worship: Seven Stories (Cigarette)". Book by Yukio Mishima, November 1, 2002.

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• Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Alive, World

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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