Anais Nin Quotes

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

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 kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

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

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

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I used to love writing in my journal.

My songs are just little letters to me.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn't express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I write in a diary every night to collect my thoughts. It's very therapeutic to songwrite, because it's the same thing.

I write a diary every day.

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

My best writing has always been in journals.

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.