But I would always find a way to write even if all I had was a pen and a napkin to write on. So I like to write and as a result am always searching for something to wrote on/in and thus I love notebooks.

-V.D.

For me, good notebooks and pens are simply about creating a good atmosphere for pouring your thoughts out of your head. Just as it’s best to have a good “spot” to write in, a good notebook and a pen are, in a sense, nothing more than an aid to concentration, a clearing out of all obstacles and distractions that would impede the writing process. The paper and pen lie much closer to the heart of the writing act than one’s music or chair, obviously — the right notebook can turn a mundane writing experience into a positively magical one — but it is destructive of creativity to think of them as any more then tools.

I read a lot about people who are afraid to write in their fancy new journals because their thoughts don’t feel “worthy” of the medium. I never had that problem, and I’m pretty sure people who do have the wrong idea about what a notebook is for. For me it starts with having something to write in the first place — something you are compelled to give birth to, to preserve, in at least some kind of rough, unfinished form. Then I think, what kind of book would I want to put this in? So you buy the book and start writing. If you really have nothing to write about but grocery lists, then no notebook is going to inspire you, it will only intimidate you.

(Every writer should read the chapter about the painter in “The Great Divorce.” by C.S. Lewis)

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I feel they enable me. They’re a conduit, a capillary and help draw out certain kinds of ideas and thoughts. Using them is different enough than keyboarding and when I use a fountain pen, it’s as if the ink is the lifeblood of ideas. Very rewarding. I have 2 moving boxes of notebooks going back to 1995 (Yikes!) and can’t help myself, when in a stationary store, I see one that’s different.