Quotes about Journals

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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. I — Sylvia Plath
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also m — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot gu — Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pe — May Sarton
Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memo — Val Uchendu
I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg, covered with — John Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever
It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bl — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithfu — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel... — Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily. — Lailah Gifty Akita
All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green re — Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may be saved, caught and — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient
When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden — Bill Callahan, Letters to Emma Bowlcut
Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No — William S. Burroughs
I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part — I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will--a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul...the bloodiest of mutilations.
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. — David Sedaris
Because drugs have become so profitable, major medical journals rarely publish studies on nondrug treatments of mental h — Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
As she descended below the floor level of the loft, her former partner in juvenile crime was revealed to her from scuffe — Sharon K. Garner, Pele's Tears
Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we — Rob Bignell, Editor, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers