Quotes About Keeping Journals

#1. I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

Keke Palmer

#2. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Grace Paley

#3. It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.

Alexandra Johnson

#4. If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

Madeleine L'Engle

#6. I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

Gallant

#7. Why I'm Not Where You Are

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Diogenes Of Sinope

#9. It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.

Ian McEwan

#10. I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

Janet Jackson

#11. Look. The world is full of liars, and it's time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.

Lauren Handel Zander

#12. When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

John Irving