Yellow Notebook Quotes

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.”
― Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986

“The beginner will cling and cling to her thin first draft. She clings to the coast and will strike out into the ocean only under extreme duress”
― Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986