Quotes

Handwriting is unique. It’s personal. It’s individual to you. It communicates more than just the words and ink. It communicates your humanity in ways that type ...

If you write with a pencil you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it ...

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said. I am occasionally reminded of a statement which I have made in conv...

People often ask how I find the time to write so regularly; whether notes, letters, blogs, op-eds, or even books like this. But the reality is I’m always ...

The more than 7200 pages now extant probably represent about one-quarter of what Leonardo actually wrote, but that is a higher percentage after 500 years than t...

Paper is a wonderful technology for the storage and retrieval of observations. Five hundred years later, many of Leonardo’s notebooks are still around to astoni...

“There came a point when I realized my fiction written on a computer was inferior to what I was writing by hand — the choices I made on a screen were always wro...