Diaries Quotes · Page 7

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

— Leonard Woolf

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

— Mark Alan Stamaty

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

— Claire Foy

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

— David Rockefeller

Good girls keep diaries, its the bad ones that don't have the time.

— Anonymous

I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like 'Vampire Diaries' and 'Pretty Little Liars,' which are more…

— Torrey DeVitto

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary…

— Gordon S. Wood

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information…

— Leo Szilard

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's…

— James Ellroy

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have…

— Steffi Graf

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

— Ben Casnocha

I did read all my old diaries and was quite surprised by the overwhelming melancholic tone. I remember things being rosier than…

— Emily Giffin

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes…

— Benjamin Clementine

Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to…

— Cliff Sloan

We've looked at sleep diaries of patients with insomnia, and they'll say that they don't sleep for one or two days. And…

— Shelby Harris

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager,…

— Lisa Genova

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…

— Kevin O'Leary

The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.…

— Anais Nin

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…

— Debra Dean

I felt like Elena from Vampire Diaries. She has two insanely hot men who are in love with her and would do…

— Molly McAdams

You don't lose your swing between the ninth green and the tenth tee, and you don't lose your swing from one day…

— Harvey Penick

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

— Jackie Chan

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

— Clive James

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

— Oscar Wilde

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

— A. A. Milne

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to…

— Eugene O'Neill

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she…

— James Franco

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

— Joe Perry

I love 'The Vampire Diaries!' I can't help it - it's such a teeny-bopper show, but I think I just like it…

— Ashley Wagner

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be…

— Jim Rohn

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.

— Brendan Dooling

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and…

— Agnes Repplier

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make…

— Lawrence Durrell

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life…

— Helen Fielding

[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of…

— Chris Matthews

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

— Andy Cohen

“I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on…

— Thomas Mallon

'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for…

— Luke Bryan