Peter Matthiessen Quotes

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

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 can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

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

I always have pen and paper with me.

I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with it. You can rest from any thoughts if you put them down on paper.

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 make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

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.

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

The notepad is open and the hand is writing.

I view my job more almost as a field biologist or anthropologist, where I'm collecting practices. I'm collecting techniques.

I always have a good pen with me.

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.

I'm not a particularly disciplined person in terms of my work habits.

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.

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

I'm definitely a note taker.