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“The lyrics seem to follow the music, and that's usually how I write. I write more about what comes out of my mouth while I'm writing the chords, and that seems to work better than filling up notebooks of what I think is really cool poetry, and try to put it on a song. That usually sounds like it's taped on.”

Thinking Writing Trying Song Notebook Really Cool

Author:Gary Louris

“It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying message. I think we're in a place right now where everyone is really frustrated, and there's a lot of hate in the world and a lot of bullies and bigotry. Having the opportunity to get rid of that would be amazing. I wish that I could write down a whole concept, rather than a specific name. Rather than kill somebody, I'd like to write down "evil" in the notebook. That would be fantastic!”

People Thinking World Writing Hate Evil Opportunity Fun Wish Killing Fantastic Bigotry Frustrated Bully Notebook Comical Death Note

Author:Margaret Qualley

“I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.”

Writing Kids Computer Capable Little Kid Notebook

Author:Amanda Hocking

“I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out.”

Thinking Writing Teacher Crazy Notebook

Author:Peter Orner

“Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker looks like, but also why the sky is blue, or how an emotion forms on somebody's lips. He understood the beauty of everything. I've admired Leonardo my whole life, both as a kid who loved engineering - he was one of the coolest engineers in history - and then as a college student, when I travelled to see his notebooks and paintings.”

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Author:Walter Isaacson

“Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.”

People Water Humility Genius Gay Notebook Heretic Misfits Leonardo

Author:Walter Isaacson

“President Trump has the advantage of being surrounded by an excellent cadre of advisors. Kim Jong-un doesn't have any advisors that are going to give him objective counsel. He's surrounded by medal-bedecked sycophants, who dutifully follow him around like puppy dogs with their notebooks open, ascribing his every utterance, and pushing back against the great leader is not a way to get ahead.”

Giving President Leader Dog Excellent Great Leader Notebook Puppy Puppy Dog

Author:James R. Clapper

“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.”

Writing Feelings School Brain Computer High School Notebook

Author:Lily King

“When I'm filling notebooks I'm trying to pin down what I'm really interested in and to find those details that are so hard to come by, details that I can look at and believe are right on the mark. Things which bring a novel to life. They can take a while to come.”

Trying Believe Novel Notebook

Author:James Salter

“It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.”

Thinking Important Character Home Remember Fun Enjoy Evolve Having Fun Relax Personal Life Enjoy Life Notebook Back To Work

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.”

Writing Book Enough Reading Car Lucky Computer Program Holiday Notebook

Author:Zia Haider Rahman

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

Ideas Dream Goal Filled Aspiration Notebook Goals And Aspirations

Author:Karlie Kloss

“It's not like I would see anyone and be like, "Oh yes, that person looks like maybe I had an impact on them." I don't think I did. I don't think I ever was that well known, to have an impact. And I haven't seen comics that I go, "Oh, yes! That person is terribly unprepared, with their notebook, and going off on 50 tangents. There you are. That's me."”

Thinking Well Known Notebook Unprepared

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.”

Thinking Knows Persons Would Be Able Share Flower My Favorite Connecting Notebook

Author:Taylor Lautner

“The eye is the notebook of the poet.”

Eye Literature Poet Notebook

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.”

Moving Half Insight Desks Notebook

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.”

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Book:Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

Source: Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm

“I love auditioning. Since “The Notebook” and “Wedding Crashers,” I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?”

Ifs Want Character Shows Hate Missing Nervous What If Interpretation Auditions Notebook Wedding Crasher

Author:Rachel McAdams

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

Writing Ideas Seems Might Silly All Time Notebook

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.”

Wells Kids Adults Drawing Notebook Leonardo

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.”

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Author:Walter Dean Myers

“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.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

“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.”

Trying Littles Eye My Own Watches Records Happenings Diaries Notebook Scribbles

Author:Michael Palin

“I keep a little notebook of things that I can do to the zombies that might be silly and fun.”

Littles I Can Might Fun Can Do Silly Zombie Notebook Being Silly

Author:George A. Romero

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

Writing Ideas Seeing Wander Bliss Take Me Notebook Cafes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.”

Writing Mean Ideas Three Term Loses Memories Minutes Information Paper Committed Short Term Notebook Short Term Memory

Author:Will Self

“I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.”

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Author:Colm Toibin

“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.”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”

Has Beens Hands Eye Next Perfect Taken Tree Wind Mets Summer Ordinary Breaths Forgotten Notebook Emeralds Summer Wind

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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.”

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Book:Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“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.”

Writing Talking Interviews Reporters Notebook

Book:Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels

Source: Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels

“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.”

Trying Figures Filled Notebook Mead

Author:David Foster Wallace

“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.”

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Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.”

People May Together Reading Knowing Seeing One Thing Connections Curious Dirt Mistaken Notebook Rubbish Gravestone Scraping

Author:Alice Munro

“Every great love starts with a great story.”

Love Stories Romance Storytelling Notebook Great Love Movie Love Notebook Love Notebook Memorable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”

Love Has Beens Dream Love You Valentine's Day I Love You Notebook I Loved You Movie Love Romantic I Love You Notebook Love Notebook Memorable Cute Dream Dreams And Love

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.”

Ifs Ideas Records Poet Surprise Genuine Notebook

Author:Bill Bryson

“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.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

““A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.”

Inspirational Mind Women Notebook Notebook Love Notebook Memorable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”

“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.”

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Book:The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.”

Stills Happiness Over It Notebook Movie Love Notebook Love Notebook Memorable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.”

Loses Worry Catastrophe Notebook Passports

Author:Bruce Chatwin

“Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?”

Thinking Want Parent Notebook Do You Want Me Notebook Love Notebook Memorable

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

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