Robert Musil Quotes

I used to love writing in my journal.

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

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

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

I don't keep a journal.

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

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

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

I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

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.

I do a lot of journaling.

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

'Xen,' to me, was a necessary excursion inward, into myself. 'Mutant' is a response to it and is more extroverted.

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.

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

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.