Hannah Arendt Quotes

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

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.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

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

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Books have always been an important part of my life.

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

Cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.

To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.