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The notebook is not an end, but a means.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn’t it? Now the people are waiting for something.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
when you write, you don’t feel so alone,
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
I imagine, in other words, that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not. I have no real business with what one stranger said to another at the hatcheck counter in Pavillon; in fact I suspect that the line “That’s my old football number” touched not my own imagination at all, but merely some memory of something once read, probabl
... See moreJoan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
I never had any ambitions to be a novelist. I just had this strong desire to write a novel. No concrete image of what I wanted to write about, just the conviction that if I wrote it now I could come up with something that I’d find convincing. When I thought about sitting down at my desk at home and setting out to write I realized I didn’t even own
... See moreHaruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
