Will Self Quotes

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

I always have a good pen with me.

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

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

I always have pen and paper with me.

Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

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

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

But I've got ideas. I keep my little notebook, I've always got that with me. Hopefully there's more stuff than nonsense in there.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

Every day, I think of designs, but I don't write them down, and I forget. If only I had an office.

The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.

For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.

I can fake decent penmanship, but generally, it's really just terrible. And, unfortunately for me, maybe fortunately for the reader, it's very often illegible. If I get an idea, and if I do remember to write it down, which is rare, I write in such a way that I can't read a letter.

I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.