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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Quotes by Walter Scott

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Quotes by Tony Benn

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 don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Quotes by Taylor Momsen

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Quotes by Taylor Swift

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'

Quotes by Tamara Taylor

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Quotes by Sara Bareilles

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Quotes by Robert Wilson

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

Quotes by Robert Musil

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Quotes by Richard E. Grant

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Quotes by Peter Greenaway

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

Quotes by Oliver Sim

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

Quotes by Noah Cyrus

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for him and one of the most banned books in America. That got his attention, and he raced through it.

Quotes by Nick Hornby

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Quotes by Morrissey

Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up - I'm still completely felled by what an astounding book it is. And as a teenager, I did a lot of reading about concentration camps and the vast horrors of the war.

Quotes by Monica Hesse

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.

Quotes by Miranda July

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Quotes by Mindy Kaling

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.

Quotes by Meghan Daum

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Quotes by Mary Gaitskill

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.

Quotes by Mark Mothersbaugh

Long before 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid', 'Dork Diaries', and the graphic novel explosion, only a small press like Tricycle was willing to take a risk on such an innovative format.

Quotes by Marissa Moss

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

Mae West

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

Quotes by Lou Doillon

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Quotes by Lily Koppel

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

Quotes by Lemn Sissay

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

Quotes by Kid Cudi

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.

Quotes by Kevin Gates

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Quotes by Kathryn Lasky

When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.

Quotes by Katherine Kelly

I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.

Quotes by Kate Garraway

I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

Quotes by Karen Elson

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

Quotes by Justine Musk

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.

Quotes by Jonathan Stroud

I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.

Quotes by Johnny McDaid

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

Quotes by John Mayall

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

Quotes by John Hanning Speke

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

Quotes by Joe Perry

I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.

Quotes by Jessalyn Gilsig

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

Quotes by Jeff Kinney

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

Quotes by Jeff Kinney

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Quotes by James M. Barrie

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

Quotes by James Lecesne

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

Quotes by Jack Gleeson

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

Quotes by Henny Youngman

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

Quotes by Harris Faulkner

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

Quotes by Hans Frank

I saw Roland Barthes's 'Mourning Diary' at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing.

Quotes by Go Ah-sung

A diary means yes indeed.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Quotes by Francois Truffaut

Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

Quotes by Fleur East

Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people's feelings.

Quotes by Faith Salie

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

Quotes by Evelyn Glennie

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

Quotes by Evelyn Glennie

No one is reading my diary, that's for sure.

Quotes by Erin Duffy

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.

Quotes by Erik Larson

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Quotes by Enoch Powell

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

Quotes by Enoch Powell

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

Quotes by Ellie Goulding

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

Quotes by Ella Mai

I have kept a training diary to record my training plans and my feelings and emotions for a long time.

Quotes by Eliud Kipchoge

After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It became my little diary I could refer to. I took little quotes out of the book and transferred them onto this scrapbook I kept about Amma.

Quotes by Eliza Scanlen

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Quotes by Edvard Munch

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.

Quotes by Doug Liman

Songs, to me, have always been kind of like a diary, you know - and, say, when I did 'Teenager In Love,' maybe I was 16.

Quotes by Dion DiMucci

I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

Quotes by Diane Setterfield

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

Quotes by David Rockefeller

Memoirs are - memory is - rarely 100 percent accurate. Any autobiography is a construct, ballpark, even unnatural. Private diaries, too, can be unreliable - a detail that matters only if the diary is read.

Quotes by Darin Strauss

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

Quotes by Colleen McCullough

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

Quotes by Claressa Shields

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

Quotes by Claire Tomalin

An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Quotes by Chet Faker

I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.

Quotes by Casey Neistat

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

Quotes by Carrie Fisher

I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.

Quotes by Bruce Robinson

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Quotes by Bruce Schneier

I write a diary every day.

Quotes by Bojan Krkic

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Quotes by Ben Casnocha

Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.

Quotes by Ben Dolnick

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.

Quotes by Bel Powley

I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles with 'Diary,' and I want to continue in that vein.

Quotes by Bel Powley

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

Quotes by Beatrice Webb

I like 'My Ugly Duckling,' 'High School Rapper,' 'Newlywed Diary,' and 'Radio Star.'

Quotes by Bae Suzy

When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up. The idea of being in my knickers on TV was a great incentive! Now I try to eat right, and I go to Bikram yoga three or four times a week. I have my 'naughty' days, and I indulge in pizza and cake, but so what!

Quotes by Ashley Madekwe

I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!

Quotes by Ashley Madekwe

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

Quotes by Anthea Turner

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Quotes by Anne Frank

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Quotes by Anne Frank

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

Quotes by Ann Rinaldi

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.

Quotes by Andrew Strauss

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Quotes by Alison Mosshart

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.

Quotes by Alexandra Fuller

I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.

Quotes by Aerin Lauder

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

Quotes by Adam Schlesinger

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