Robin Sharma Quotes

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I write about my life.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

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

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

I write to discover what I think.

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

We write to make sense of it all.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

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.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

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.

I used to love writing in my journal.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

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.