Tavi Gevinson Quotes

My diary seems to keep me whole.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

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.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

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 think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

Working, I can be my truest self. I don't know how healthy that is.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

I do a lot of journaling.

I have therapy. Every day. I read a bit of Freud; I try to be a better person. Every day.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

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

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles.

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'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

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