Joan Didion (1934–2021)
From “On Keeping a Notebook.”
Roger Angell, notebook man
He likes Mead.
“It's not the tool”
From The Onion: “New Leather-Bound Notebook To Really Unleash Area Woman’s Creativity.”
Rae Armantrout, taking notes
I carry a blank book journal around with me most of the time and jot down things I see and hear, especially if they seem puzzling.
Note-taking at Harvard
From Harvard University’s museums and libraries, a virtual exhibition about note-taking.
From The Waste Books
“I forget most of what I have read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.”
From The Waste Books
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s writing habits: sounds like proto-blogging.
Pens, quills, and great big typewriters
In the movie Laura
Florence Wolfson's diary
A 90-year-old woman reunited with the diary she kept as a teenager