Quotes About Writing Diaries

#1. I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

Charlotte Rampling

#2. I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

Benjamin Clementine

#3. Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Brenda Ueland

#4. Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

Anais Nin

#5. Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Anais Nin

#6. He should not be toying with her this way, drawing her into a dance round the funeral pyre, chancing that she would burn. -- Nicolas, le Diable.

Leigh Winterstine

#7. "War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

James Ellroy

#8. Twenty seven years ago, during my first romantic relationship with a boy, I started keeping a diary about my thoughts and experiences. That diary formed the basis of my novel "A Dream of Two Moons," the title of which comes from some paranormal occurrences from real life.

Sahara Sanders

#9. I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Ron Rash

#10. The hands on the shoulder, then the hug.The mouths that find each other through the tears.

S.J. Watson

#11. Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Christopher Morley

#12. A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

John Irving

#13. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

Virginia Woolf

#14. The closest to my heart is not just one book - it's the whole series of novels, Indigo Diaries. The first volume, "Gods' Food," is already available in English.

Sahara Sanders

#15. There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

Warwick Davis

#16. The
struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its
roots and absorbing elements that make it produce a
more interesting fruit.

Christie Ridgway

#17. I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

Erica Jong

#18. Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Tracy Chapman

#19. These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

Anonymous

#20. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Candace Bushnell

#21. The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

Helen Fielding

#22. 'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

Gore Vidal

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

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#24. I don't even use italics or boldface; that's clutter, not clarity. Fancy fonts are fine for blogs, just as calligraphy is fine for diaries. But when you're writing for anyone other than yourself, you want to get as universal as possible.

Andrew Vachss

#25. On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Laozi

#26. I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Sara Sheridan

#27. Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

Hillary Clinton

#28. I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

Pablo Picasso

#29. Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

Matthew Barnett

#30. I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

Nick Cave

#31. I will write myself into well-being.

Nancy Mairs

#32. Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we've thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#33. I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

Dan Brown

#34. Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

Jon Pareles

#35. If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others ... become an author.

James Patterson