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notebook running writing
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs. Charles de Lint
notebook growing-up artist
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
notebook real character
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
notebook motivation powerful
Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future. Carl Sagan
notebook pages way
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 either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way. Chad Harbach
notebook running block
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
notebook morning thinking
What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens. Jami Attenberg
notebook dad teaching
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone. Jason Aldean
notebook prayer heart
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart. Aiden Wilson Tozer
situations
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. Lakhdar Brahimi
sit
You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater. Stephanie Zimbalist
sitting shelves
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf. Brian Eno
situation findings happens
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.
situation
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
sitcom decided
I decided sitcoms weren't for me. David Alan Grier
situation step
This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do. Jim Roberts
sitting
If I'm sitting around exulting over traffic data, I'm an idiot. Ezra Klein
situation tough
We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of. Gary Williams
turtles car used
I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle. Bess Truman
turtles machines world
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you. Charlie Munger
turtles sticker knows
I wanna put stickers on turtles... I don't know why. Demetri Martin
turtles clubs enough
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! Dana Carvey
turtles world walks
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. Bruce Feiler
turtles house gone
I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone. Bobby Darin
turtles bud doe
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve. Arthur Miller
turtles progress sticks
Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress. Anna Olson
turtles
You can't build a substantial V out of turtles! Dr. Seuss