Record Keeping Quotes

“Tonight I write this journal entry on my laptop. Other nights I have handwritten entries in notebooks. Sometimes I jot down notes as I ride home in the cab or wait for an appointment. I want all of this -- everything and everyone -- to stay with me.”
― Paula Huntley, The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

“Historical gap is created due to missing written records.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or anyone else, is because of the part of his personality that is one gigantic record-keeping system, a complex sifting and filing scheme that dictates what goes here and what goes there, turning his life into so many marks on a tablet. His mind would busy itself with the book's whereabouts every second it was away. He knows it would.”
― Kevin Brockmeier, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade

“The power of writing is phenomenal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Zaista, smiješno je kako se malom prepravkom, zaboravljanjem sitnica, izostavljanjem uzroka, neznatnim prekrajanjem stvarnih događaja, porazi mogu pretvoriti u pobjede, promašenost u junaštvo.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

“Dorjan didn’t know whether to admire the record keeper who’d been added to his family or just call the man odd for his dedication to recording small things.

Some people are record keepers. Lighthouse keepers, for instance. Weather keepers for the almanac. There are organizations with profound record-keeping characteristics such as archivists for arts and history museums, research scientists, political biographers, and the recent Internal Revenue Service which could be up to no good, but what was Rich up to?”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“RECORDING THE PAST WITH A DULL PENCIL IS POINTLESS”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch