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Diaries Quotes

A diary promises honesty that a public statement rarely can. These quotes look at diaries from multiple angles: a filmmaker protecting the resonance of a personal project, a biographer questioning how much editing an old diary should survive, a writer describing the nightly discipline of keeping one, and a researcher combing through royal archives for unfiltered truth. Each entry treats the diary as both a private ritual and a historical record.

Consistency matters here too, much like the discipline explored in Always quotes about daily habits.

In the digital age, there are a million and one ways to find out what someone you fancy is doing - but remember, they can see when you're watching their Instagram stories. If you fall deep into a hole of...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Quotes by Walter Salles

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Quotes by Tony Benn

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

Quotes by Steffi Graf

Always Quotes

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no...

Quotes by Ruth Reichl

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Quotes by Ron Rash

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

Roald Dahl

You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

Quotes by Ransom Riggs

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like...

Quotes by Raina Telgemeier

Everything Quotes

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

Quotes by Meaghan Jette Martin

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

Quotes by Meg Cabot

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

Quotes by Luke Bryan

One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today....

Quotes by Laura Amy Schlitz

Good Quotes

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

Quotes by Jonathan Dimbleby

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

Quotes by Jeffrey Archer

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up...

Quotes by Helen Fielding

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

Quotes by Gregg Easterbrook

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as...

Quotes by Gallant

I Am Quotes

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Quotes by Gael Garcia Bernal

Frequently Asked Questions

What does one filmmaker say about protecting the impact of their diary-based work?
They describe not wanting to do anything that could dilute how resonant the experience of making a motorcycle-journey film based on diaries was for everyone involved.
How does one quote question the editing of historical diaries?
It reflects on a claim that a famous doctor's diaries were edited alongside his patient's, calling that both true and unfair, and raising doubts about how authentic daily diary accounts really are.
How much writing can a lifetime of diary-keeping produce?
One quote notes that uncut diaries reached 16 million words, while also admitting how tiring it is to write in a diary every single night before bed.
What kind of access did one writer have to royal diaries and letters?
They describe spending two years combing through royal archives, freely reading journals, diaries, and thousands of letters as part of their research.
Where can I find more quotes about consistent daily habits?
See the Always quotes collection for more on the discipline behind routines like diary-keeping.

For more reflective reading, browse Good quotes, or see personal identity explored in I Am quotes.