Her Diary Quotes

#1. The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

Julian Fellowes

#2. Ivy, I pray that it's you reading this.
And if you are, well, I suppose you're the new me... - Scarlet, in her diary

Sophie Cleverly

#3. I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Sanhita Baruah

#4. I have written this book quicker than any other," she notes in her diary, "[and] it is all a joke; & yet gay & quick reading I think; a writers holiday. I feel more and more sure that I will never write a novel again

Virginia Woolf

#5. My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary

Joseph Delaney

#6. He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.

Elizabeth Strout

#7. I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in a drawer next to by bed. I like to see how her memories were the same as mine, but also different.

Cynthia Kadohata

#8. Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.

Alice Kaplan

#9. I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.

Casey Neistat

#10. I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

Gabriele Munter

#11. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

#12. One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#13. Maybe one day I will meet her in real life. Her tears were my rain, her angry was thunder and lighting. I knew when it rained. I was doing something wrong, when It thundered I knew I had to write about her to make her happy. The Diary

Jeremy Limn

#14. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Yukio Mishima

#15. I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Johnny McDaid

#16. I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Louise Bourgeois

#17. I shall grow accustomed to the dark far easier than he to the light.

Jennifer Lynch

#18. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Mae West

#19. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Lenny Kravitz

#20. I've kept a diary since I was 11.

Evelyn Glennie

#21. The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Guillermo Del Toro

#22. I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

Amber Heard

#23. For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Bram Stoker

#24. Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

Will Rogers

#25. Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Nikki Sixx

#26. You need a companion for your thought process, than a physical relationship.

Rajasaraswathii

#27. My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.

Cathy Guisewite

#28. First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

Jeff Kinney

#29. I could write novels about her forever. Maybe when I die I will end up in the poem with her writing more poems about our times together.' The Diary

Jeremy Limn

#30. There is a page in 'Diary of a Worm' in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.

Doreen Cronin

#31. I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Mindy Kaling

#32. No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her hand is the first woman, the only woman in the world. And he is the first man, he stumbles on love and he cant shake it,never,ever,ever..

Pia Pera

#33. I couldn't reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad. She held herself stiff, a lacquered lady. I think because I couldn't feel her, I couldn't feel myself.

Lauren Slater

#34. The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.

Anais Nin

#35. Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.
Diary of a Penguin-napper (p. 15)

Sally Harris

#36. She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt words written by a girl she only vaguely remembered. She wished she'd written more. Her words mad her feel sad and proud, powerful and relieved.

Lisa Genova

#37. If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

David Sedaris

#38. What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#39. Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. No matter.

Gillian Flynn

#40. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.

Bram Stoker

#41. Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I?
Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

Oscar Wilde

#42. Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.

Gerry Souter

#43. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year

Yasunari Kawabata

#44. I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.

Paula M. Hunter

#45. I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Jessalyn Gilsig

#46. In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Chuck Palahniuk

#47. playing that game!

Diary Wimpy

#48. Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back

Lyric

#49. A diary means yes indeed.

Gertrude Stein

#50. Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie

L.J.Smith

#51. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny

Gino Norris

#52. In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

James Lecesne

#53. Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.

"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

Hanns Heinz Ewers

#54. For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

Kate Zambreno

#55. He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

Soren Kierkegaard

#56. Kate was reading through a long diary entry about the first time Katherine
and Matthew had met. Katherine had apparently fallen deeply in lust on the very spot. The entry used the words "delectable,""buttocks," and "I want to bite them.

Lauren James

#57. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

Caroline George

#58. I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media.

Julia Woodman

#59. I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.

Taylor Swift

#60. My diary seems to keep me whole.

Anais Nin

#61. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.

David McCullough

#62. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

Helen Fielding

#63. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Anais Nin

#64. As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).

Vinny Flynn

#65. The girl lives in a beautiful dollhouse made of stone, I wrote one time in my diary when I was young, my handwriting shaky but sure. But underneath her shining plastic smile, there are only screams.

Amy Lukavics

#66. The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me ... since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.

Alice James

#67. Since Winston cannot express himself openly in society for fear of punishment, the diary becomes an important medium for him to express his true feelings about the state and the Party.

Trisha Lively

#68. Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

Sarah Manguso

#69. Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.

Joe Dunthorne

#70. Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.

Jasmina Tesanovic

#71. A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

Lemn Sissay

#72. The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Tony Benn

#73. There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Bruce Schneier

#74. I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

Mindy Kaling

#75. Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in their houses and in the streets!" God, punish those who are persecuting the people you chose and to whom Jesus also belonged. -From the diary of Diet Eman

Diet Eman

#76. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#77. I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.

Ann Rinaldi

#78. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Enoch Powell

#79. Our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Charlotte Moss

#80. Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

Fleur East

#81. Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

#82. Scuse me diary ... gotta take care of a pressing problem in my jeans right now.

Same day - later.

What? At least I didn't come over your nice, clean pages, right?

K.C. Wells