diary keeping Quotes

Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like an impulse.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.

Keeping a diary supports personal development.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

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.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.