Scribbles Quotes

• Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Writing, Here And There, Wells

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• [On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.

  Maureen Dowd

  Struggle, Firsts, Journalism

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• I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

  John James Audubon

  Men, Bird, Letters

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

  John Steinbeck

  Challenges, Mark, Ifs

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• When in doubt, scribble.

  Jean Wilson

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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• My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sketchbooks, Witness, Happens

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• All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Drawing, Interesting

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Literature, Sincere

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• I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

  Jenny Saville

  Art, Children, Thinking

  "Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Change, Pieces, Paper

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• Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.

  Michael Morpurgo

  People, Connections, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Soul, Adults

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

  Michael Faraday

  Self, Order, Owl

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Might, Action

  "Bob Dylan posts web message about China shows" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

  Robert Frost

  Grief, Flower, Eden

  Betsy Melvin, Tom Melvin, Robert Frost (2000). “Robert Frost's New England”, p.29, UPNE

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• [ Digital revolution ] only has allowed me to work faster, editing digitally, which I'm doing right now, a film on volcanoes. I can edit almost as fast as I'm thinking, editing with celluloid means always searching for this little reel of film, and number it, and scribble on it with some sort of pens, and gluing it together, and working on a flatbed. It's much, much slower.

  Werner Herzog

  Mean, Thinking, Digital Revolution

  Source: collider.com

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• When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Napkins, Seducing

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• I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

  Brian Jacques

  Book, Kids, Waiting In Line

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• I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

  Rob Urbinati

  Passion, Play, Torment

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

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• I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Thinking, Drawing

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• What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?

  Alfred Kazin

  Imagination, Principles, Needs

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely.

  Karl Buhler

  Children, Memories, Years

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• We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

  Julia Cameron

  Time, Writing, Perfect

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.23, Penguin

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