Virginia Woolf Quotes

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

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.

I write a diary every day.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I don't keep a journal.

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

I've always written down how I feel.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My songs are just little letters to me.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

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.

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.

If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.