Garrett Hedlund Quotes

A diary means yes indeed.

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.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

I sit with the intention to write a record.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

Kids who want to become writers might want to start carrying a small notebook in their backpack. I encourage people to sit down in malls and listen, just listen, to how people talk.

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

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

If you didn’t write it down, you didn’t say it.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

I just always felt whole when I was writing. I felt this kind of beautiful privacy that I never felt in any other way. I feel like there's this great fullness to being alone, and writing is a really vivid way and a really magical way of being alone.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.

I keep a journal, like many writers do. It helps in writing a story, as you can use an incident from the journal and put in your story.

I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.

To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, with the most unlimited confidence, the most unremitting sincerity, to the end of my life!