Top 65 Writing Diary Quotes
#1. When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
Jeff Kinney
#2. The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
John Fowles
#3. There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial ... Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost ... I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
Simone De Beauvoir
#4. One always sees the soul through words. (22 July 1922)
Virginia Woolf
#5. Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.
Christopher Morley
#6. 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
#7. Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.
Meghan Daum
#8. I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
Kid Cudi
#9. That night I sat up writing in my diary writing to Big Me: 'I hope you are alive ' I wrote. 'I hope that I don't die before you are able to read this.
Dan Chaon
#10. I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
Anais Nin
#11. I long for the day I no longer long for him.
Franki Fiori
#12. 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
#13. I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff going on in my life that I don't write about. If I need to write that stuff down, I write about myself in my diary.
David Sedaris
#14. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
Petra Nemcova
#15. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)
Virginia Woolf
#16. The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
Anais Nin
#18. I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.
Orhan Pamuk
#19. I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
Virginia Woolf
#20. 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
#21. Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
Sara Sheridan
#22. One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#23. I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.
Linda Ronstadt
#24. I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
Virginia Woolf
#25. To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.
A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable flight of stairs. A memorable bit of conversation surrounded by chatter that no one records.
Sarah Manguso
#26. Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two
Hugh B. Brown
#28. Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.
Orhan Pamuk
#30. 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
#31. The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again.
Akshay Vasu
#32. I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.
Judy Blume
#33. 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
#34. I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing, since I have just re-read my year's diary and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gallop at which it swings along, sometimes indeed jerking almost intolerably over the cobbles.
Virginia Woolf
#35. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
#36. I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media.
Julia Woodman
#37. 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
#39. Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.
Hillary Clinton
#40. To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#41. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.
Joe Dunthorne
#42. I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. "Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. "Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.
Robert Pattinson
#43. [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.
Virginia Woolf
#44. If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
Fan Bingbing
#45. I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself.
Srinidhi.R
#46. After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.
Joyce Carol Oates
#47. For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.
George Orwell
#48. I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
Lou Doillon
#49. 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
#50. Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
#51. 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
#52. And instead of dying Immediately after they shot him, he would go on to survive several days solely because of the cold that January. Maybe that's why we are drawn to those who posses the coldest of hearts ... In effort to survive.
Bethany Brookbank
#53. Paper is more patient than people.
Anne Frank
#54. I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Pablo Picasso
#55. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank
#56. Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
Richard Peck
#57. By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.
Ella Henderson
#58. And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
#59. Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
Brenda Ueland
#60. Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Anais Nin
#61. She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.
Anais Nin
#62. All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy
Elizabeth Scott
#63. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
Kathryn Lasky
#64. Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
Sevyn Streeter
#65. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.
Alex Garland
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