Writers and Their Notebooks Quotes

“No one can expect to write well who would not first take the risk of writing badly. The writer’s notebook is a safe place for such experiments to be undertaken.”
― Diana Raab, Writers and Their Notebooks

“References Baker, Nicholson. U and I: A True Story. New York: Random House, 1991. Didion, Joan. “On Keeping a Notebook,” in Slouching toward Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Dunlap, Louise. Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing. Oakland: New Village Press, 2007. Elbow, Peter. Writing with Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Boston: Shambala, 1996. Junker, Howard, ed. The Writer’s Notebook. San Francisco: HarperCollins West, 1995. Lu Chi. Wen Fu: The Art of Writing. Translated by Sam Hamill. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2000.”
― Diana Raab, Writers and Their Notebooks

“I must thank those champions of free-writing—Louise Dunlap, Peter Elbow, Natalie Goldberg—for giving me the tool that allowed me to write.”
― Diana Raab, Writers and Their Notebooks