Quotes About Writing

I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

I'm not ashamed to confess that I often note down many of the crazy things my children say.

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I keep a writer's notebook and also put all my daily schedules and to-do lists in it.

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with it. You can rest from any thoughts if you put them down on paper.

Everything about writing is hard for me except for that - the names pop into my head. That's one of the reasons why I always make sure I have a notebook with me.

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.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

I get up, and if I feel out of sorts, I'll do some exercises, I'll feed my cat, then I go get my coffee, take a notebook, and write for a couple of hours.

If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

I keep a notebook of ideas, and sometimes ideas form in your head that you just have to write down, or you'll forget them.

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.

I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.

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

I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible.

I handwrite out all my lines. I like to see my handwriting, and I like to keep my notes over time.