David Sedaris Quotes

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was younger, and I think its good for young girls to try and express what they are feeling on paper; it's cathartic.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

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

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've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

I have stacks and stacks of journals. I'll change the names if I ever decide to publish them.

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

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.

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

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.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.

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

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

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

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

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.

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

I don't journal to 'be productive.' I don't do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren't intended for anyone but me. It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I started writing for myself when I didn't know how to understand how I was feeling, and I didn't know how to talk to people about it, so I would break into the subconscious to try and understand what I was going through.