Quotes About Writing Things Down To Remember

#1. Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again .

Alan Partridge

#3. Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down.

Lil' Wayne

#4. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

Alex Garland

#5. Baby doll, you're about to be claimed.

Kristen Ashley

#6. I wrote. I wrote all the things I couldn't say to him. I wrote about how much I believed in us. I wrote about how much I trusted God. I wrote that I was praying for him. I wrote down all the jokes I could remember, which weren't many.

Kimberly Novosel

#7. Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.

Gerald Durrell

#8. I like kisses that aren't too fast or rushed - that's what makes a good kiss.

Louis Tomlinson

#9. I try to remember the things that keep me peaceful, happy, and compassionate. I constantly write notes on my phone about little discoveries I make in terms of perspective and habitual thought patterns. My memory seems to let me down, so this really helps me.

Richard Brancatisano

#10. She stared stupidly into his eyes, thinking about how very much she'd like to make that noise again ... with him.

Nicki Elson

#11. Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Andrew Lakey

#12. Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.

Maggie Nelson

#13. My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart ...

Haruki Murakami

#14. Beauty is when the beauty within reflects exactly on the outside.

Saleem Sharma

#15. It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.

Ryan Adams

#16. The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

Greg Rucka

#17. I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Jason Bateman

#18. Always remember that writing is an alliance between author and reader. With every line we put down on the page, we need to leave room for the reader's imagination and intellect.

Hal Zina Bennett

#19. When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

Alain Robert

#20. I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

Thighpaulsandra

#21. It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this idea for a complete story - from start to finish - in my head, so I jotted it down, then later began writing the thing.

Paul Kane

#22. When a man finds a good thing, he wants to keep it.

Jeffrey A. White

#23. If you don't write it down, it never happened.
Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

Tom Clancy

#24. Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

Albert Einstein

#25. I'm skeptical of passive learning. If you don't write down what you're hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

Ben Casnocha

#26. Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else

Immortal Technique

#27. Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.

Roy Hargrove

#28. The eternal now," he said. "She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point." "Of writing?" "Or suicide.

Ruth Ozeki

#29. 'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

Chance The Rapper

#30. I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down ... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.

Garrett Hedlund

#31. I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them ... But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

Michael Scott

#32. 229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.

Maggie Nelson

#33. I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it.

J. Golden Kimball

#34. I'm a very melody-driven writer and I have a rule that I don't write anything down because if I can't remember the melody than it wasn't worth remembering. So it's my way to test myself in the studio. When I was a kid I could sing pretty well so melody always made a lot of sense to me.

Justin Timberlake

#35. Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.

Meg Wolitzer

#36. I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#37. For some reason, the act of writing them down makes me remember. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right one.

Ally Condie

#38. I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then putting it down on paper - it was such a pleasure. I read whatever I could get my hands on, from 'Great Expectations' to 'The Thorn Birds.'

Liane Moriarty

#39. At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind's dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind's dungeons.

Avijeet Das