Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape

Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

Develop a good filing system.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

Nobody really cares about short links, but people do care about saving and sharing content.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

I'm definitely a note taker.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

All broadcasts on Periscope need to be archived for playback permanently, unless the broadcaster chooses to delete the recording. So many treasured moments have been shared on Periscope only to vanish a day later.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

As far as any personal records, if I get 'em, fine, and if I don't, fine.

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.