I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.
Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.
I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.