Notebook Quotes

“What will I write in this beautiful book?
She carried the book to class for the rest of the day, and that night she put it under her pillow, still blank. She liked it blank right now, liked to know that it was waiting, listening. Just like her friends.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one's secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown. My deepest joy is to write. To accept the world and to accept pleasure—but only when I am stripped bare of everything. I should not be worthy to love the bare and empty beaches if I could not remain naked in the presence of myself. For the first time I can understand the meaning of the word happiness without any ambiguity. It is a little different from what men normally mean when they say: 'i am happy.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“I would fight every angel between us until God said, "Yes.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper

“All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“To keep going to the end means not only resisting but also relaxing. I need to be aware of myself, in so far as this is also an awareness of something that goes beyond me as an individual. I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....”
― TA Richards

“The power of writing is phenomenal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“[Patricia Highsmith] went on to recommend that aspiring writers keep a notebook in which to jot down thoughts or ideas, that they should trust in the power of the unconscious and that they shouldn't force inspiration. In addition, it was important to avoid those who negated the creative process, sometimes people per se. 'The plane of social intercourse,' she said, 'is not the plane of creation, not the plane on which creative ideas fly [...] This is a curious thing, because sometimes the very people we are attracted to or in love with act as effectively as rubber insulators to the spark of inspiration.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but by the imposed time limit. She decided to write down what she was going to say in a note-book, and pulled one across the table towards her. When she flipped it open she was confronted with a bad sketch of a seductively posed naked woman. To her surprise she saw it was Martinsson’s notepad. But why should that surprise me? she thought. All the men I know spend an enormous amount of mental energy undressing women in their minds.”
― Henning Mankell, Before the Frost

“Often, when tempted to peek into the drawer too early, Wendy could assuage her longing by pulling out the tiny notebook she always kept with her. It had a very slim blue pencil that perfectly fit down the spine, and was nearly full of her neat, enthusiastic words. Well-thumbed pages were titled with things like "Peter Pan and the Pirates and the Unexpected Zeppelin" or "Peter Pan and Tiger Lily versus the Cyclops of the Cerulean Sea." And she had illustrated "Captain Hook Is Taught A Timely Lesson by Peter Pan" with a little picture of a clock she had carefully copied from the mantel, as well as the eyes and nostrils of a fierce crocodile- the rest of whose body she had no hope of depicting accurately, and thus chose to submerge.”
― Liz Braswell, Straight On Till Morning

“On the very edge -- and over the edge lies a gambler's attitude to life. I deny, I am cowardly and weak, I act as if I were saying yes, as if I were strong and brave. Question of will power--carry absurdity through the very end--I am capable of...
Hence, take this gambler's attitude tragically, as far as the effort one makes is concerned, but see it as comic (or, rather, as unimportant) in the result obtained.
But to do this, don't waste time. Look for the extreme experience in solitude. Purify gambling by conquering yourself--knowing such conquest to be absurd”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

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― Barry, TWO STANDARDS 1898

“Don't say bullshit, don't lie what you saw in the film The Seasoning you will do it, I will do it and many other people. It was a fact which was true, but it was out of the stage, who has written it knows a lot of about it, if you meet such person, try to get everything make notes and probably like some kind a book or make an a article about this. Because a lot of people are behind such story..., but you are to young to understand and to stupid to find it.”
― Deyth Banger

“dear me

i think i can run miles after miles through my mind by imaginary flyover ,gather all together to write down on my notebook.”
― litymunshi

“On the very edge—and over the edge lies a gambler's attitude to life. I deny, I am cowardly and weak, I act as if I were saying yes, as if I were strong and brave. Question of will power —carry absurdity through the very end—I am capable of... Hence, take this gambler's attitude tragically, as far as the effort one makes is concerned, but see it as comic (or, rather, as unimportant) in the result obtained. But to do this, don't waste time. Look for the extreme experience in solitude. Purify gambling by conquering yourself—knowing such conquest to be absurd”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“If time seems to pass so quickly, this is because there are no landmarks. Like the moon when it is at its height or on the horizon. The years of our youth are so long because they are so full, the years of our old age so short because each stage already marked out.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942