Bring your reading notebook home and study the story you are reading.
It has served as such a muse that Ms. Mensch was inspired to explore its history by reading the notebooks of John A. Roebling, the engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge.
7Levov was a childhood hero of Zuckerman's; in reading the notebooks, it becomes evident that Zuckerman harbored an unceasing infatuation with him: "The boy's beguilement has never wholly evaporated, for to this day I haven't forgotten [Seymour]," Zuckerman wrote.
I was afraid of opening my father's suitcase and reading his notebooks because I knew that he would never have tolerated the difficulties that I had tolerated, that it was not solitude he loved but mixing with friends, crowds, company.
In a soft German accent, he explained what it had been like to read the notebooks for the first time.
One wants to read the notebooks as a novel of education, recording a growing consciousness of the brutality and the corruption of the Soviet regime.
Earlier this year, General David Petraeus pleaded to a misdemeanor after allowing his mistress and biographer to read sensitive notebooks that he kept when he ran the C.I.A.
I happened to be reading Samuel Butler's Notebooks, and he went, 'Oh! Marvellous!', and began to quote his favourite passages.
He asked me to bring him Gruyère, blue cheese, curry powder, chili pepper, notebooks, reading glasses and telephone cards, and he expressed frustration about the slow progress of his case.
In it Mr. Gates, assuming the role of flâneur, roams up and down the East Coast and through parts of Illinois — walking, talking, driving, thinking, visiting, reading Lincoln's notebooks while reclining on a sofa — to learn what it is hard to imagine he does not already know.
