Keeley Hawes Quotes

I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Actually, I probably have 30 binders at home. I have a lot of binders.

The major gripe I heard was from people who made beautiful cards but couldn't find envelopes to fit them. I realised that if I could provide a product that would make envelopes in any size and out of any paper, I could hit the jackpot.

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

One of my favorite stores in the Old Town is Buchbinderei. It's this tiny stationery shop where the owner, Doris Feldman, makes these beautiful hand-bound notebooks I always buy for gifts.

I collect a lot of eco-friendly shopping bags that serve to separate my shoes other and other small stuff in my luggage.

I always have a good pen with me.

People don't take enough advantage of the refrigerator door.

There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.

I have my little craft bag that I bring with me to set everywhere I go.

A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

I've learned a lot about lockers.

I don't have a medicine cabinet.

People have different styles: Some are filers and some are pilers. The people who pile things often know exactly where things are, and they're often just as organized as the people who file things.

Put all the menus and TV guides and magazines and local info papers in the drawers. I hate clutter!

I saved everything, all my gear over the years: my trench coats and stuff that I have saved. It is all packed away nicely and neatly in vacuum-sealed bags and all that stuff.

I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.