Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

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

I don't know what I think until I write it down.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Part of my therapy is to write.

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

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.

A diary means yes indeed.

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 write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

The words come from here. From memories, from dreams, from people I've known. I'm always writing and reflecting on life. I want to suck it all in.

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

I've always wanted to be a writer, and I've kept journals since I was eight years old.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

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

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

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.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

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.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.