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“I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.”

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Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.”

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Author:Martin Gardner

“I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.”

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Author:Nathan Sawaya

“I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.”

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Author:Bill Peet

“The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.”

Ifs Want Giving Self Jobs Difficult Painting Discipline Easier Worthwhile Self Discipline Difficult Things Doodling

Author:John Hurt

“But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]”

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Author:Jeff Vespa

“I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.”

Thinking Left Loses Five Surprise Doodling

Author:Pete Docter

“I don't believe in writer's block. There are good days when you're writing and less good days. I've learned that if it's not happening to walk away and return later. I doodle a lot and often get my best ideas with a pencil in my hand while I'm doodling. The problem is, sometimes I lose my doodles and that's bad!”

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Author:Judy Blume

“I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.”

People Needs Hands Nails Restless Sock Biting Doodling

Author:Vera Brosgol

“Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.”

Cougars Doodling

Book:Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

“Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.”

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Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.”

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Author:Glen Keane

“For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.”

Ifs Want Joy Loses Doodling

Author:Matthew Ashford

“I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.”

“I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.”

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Author:Rebecca Miller

“I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak