Diaries Quotes - Page 7

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

Of course the chronology of the books is a bit back- to - front, and books usually come out before movies. But happily, these [Bridget Jones's] are fictional comedy diaries - not a history of the Battle of Waterloo.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.

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

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

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

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

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

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.