Scribbling Quotes

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing way at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace. (Louisa May Alcott)
America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. View quote
C. S. Lewis
I knew I was destined for London, so I came to live with my nan in her council flat. It was the summer after my A-levels. Got a job in Willesden cemetery. I was getting a man's wage, filling in graves. Stood around while they did the last rites. Cut the grass. A lot of the time I'd just sit on the gravestones and read and write. Scribbling away. View quote
Pete Doherty
It is clear to see that it is not them but me, who had lost my self-identity. As I hide behind these books I read, while scribbling my poetry, like art could save a wretch like me, with some ideal ideology that no one can hope to achieve. And I am never real; it is just a sketch of me. And everything I have made is trite and cheap and a waste of paint, of tape, of time. View quote
Conor Oberst
You can't write. That's not writing. It's scribbling. Distasteful scribbling. Why can't you write properly? View quote
Peter Greenaway
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. View quote
Lord Byron
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly. View quote
Ilana Mercer
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. View quote
Simon Van Booy
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. View quote
James Patterson
Our plans were to go to Amsterdam and Laren tomorrow and then spend another day with you... I am very busy again with 7 paintings at the same time, I still have a lot to do before I can go to Laren, going to live there. Now, this week I can say it more confidently, - when we find a suitable location... We are on a leap of eating out therefore this scribbling.. (Anton Mauve)
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. View quote
Dani Shapiro
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment. View quote
Darin Strauss
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. View quote
Henri Rousseau
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. View quote
Herbert Gold
Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper. View quote
Jim Capaldi
The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd. View quote
Kim Swift
Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later. View quote
Natascha McElhone
When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum. View quote
Neil Jackson
Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. (William Faulkner)
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. View quote
William Faulkner
How far can we anticipate the habitations and ways, the usages and adventures, the mighty employments, the ever increasing knowledge and power of the days to come? No more than a child with its scribbling paper and its box of bricks can picture or model the undertakings of its adult years. View quote
H. G. Wells
I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. View quote
Mary Oliver
America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne