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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later. -- Natascha McElhone
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. -- Henri Rousseau
Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper. -- Jim Capaldi
I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more. -- James Patterson
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. -- Lord Byron
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. -- Simon Van Booy
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun. -- Peter Capaldi
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling. -- Dani Shapiro
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. -- Herbert Gold
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. -- C. S. Lewis
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. -- Mary Oliver
I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. -- Kurt Cobain
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book. -- Teresa Medeiros
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. -- Kim Swift
I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by my husband that persuading our mobiles to talk to our computers is going to be quicker and more straightforward than scribbling a note in our kitchen diary. -- Jojo Moyes
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five. -- Walter Kirn
The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub. -- John Niven
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. -- Neil Jackson
The itch of scribbling. -- Juvenal
Keep scribbling! Something will happen. -- Frank McCourt
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling. -- Horace
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. -- Rumi
My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen. -- Vincent Van Gogh
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. -- Juvenal
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. -- Louisa May Alcott
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. -- Guy Garvey
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Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions. -- Manning Marable
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels. -- Darin Strauss
I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ... -- Laetitia Pilkington
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out is not quite what would come out if I were scribbling. -- Chinua Achebe
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know. -- W.S. Gilbert
An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel? No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten. -- Michael Grant

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