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 fi….

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 c….

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about n….

I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, th….

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?.

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

Tell Me what you want, and I'll Show you how to get it..

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….

When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the ….

The HARDEST PART about BREAKING UP is the next day, opening your notebook only you see I LOVE YOU scribbled all over..

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck..

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm lik….

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of ….

Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you..

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

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook..

I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept….

Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and eithe….

I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with [...] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite….

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….

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're b….