Notebook Stories

Laura Jane shows off these notebooks and journals, saying “I covet them. {seriously}” Read more and see some scrapbooking tips at her blog, Call Me Laura Jane.

The blog All Women’s Talk features a variety of cute and colorful notebooks, including these: See more at 8 Fab Notebooks to Write in ….

Ooh, juicy gossip item of the week! Madge: Hands off my diaries! Dear Diary: I wonder what would happen if you – my dearest diary – were to fall into the wrong hands. That’s the dilemma Madonna has faced ever since a 12-volume set of notebooks, supposedly the journals she kept between 1987 and 1996, [...]

Found at Archives Tragic: …she describes her life-long diary and note-keeping habits, and the shelves of “battered old notebooks stuffed with inconsequential factoids” that have accumulated as a result. She never opens the notebooks once they are finished, but can’t bring herself to destroy them either. From a review of The Feel of Steel, by [...]

This quote rang a bell with me: But see, I don’t even like journals. For a few years, I would often get journals and blank notebooks from friend and family — cause what do you get a girl who writes a lot? Blank paper. But I would never actually ‘finish’ those journals. I have about [...]

Andrew Motion, the poet laureate of Britain, was interviewed recently and I noticed this remark: My notebooks are Ordning & Reda from Selfridges — blank pages for poetry, lined for prose. I’d never heard of Ordning & Reda so I had to investigate, of course! Here’s their website: www.ordning-reda.com. Now is it just me or [...]

An Etsy seller is making little matchbook-like notebooks as samples to promote her line of journals– very cute!

At Megaquotes, there’s quite a list of quotes about writing. The ones below made me think about my own notebooks: So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 (All those nice fresh [...]

These two posts caught my eye today: This morning I’ve been thinking about how last May my literary archives went to Texas. All my papers (letters to and from me, journals, notebooks, drafts and fragment of work both published and unpublished, contracts, bank statements, phone bills, you name it) had lived with me for over [...]