Isabel Allende Quotes

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

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

Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

I've been keeping journals since I was 13.

I write a diary every day.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell him that he was never going to die, that somehow he would always be present in my life, because he had a theory that death didn't exist, only forgetfulness did. He believed that if you can keep people in your memory, they will live forever. That's what he did with my grandmother.

Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.