Diaries Quote by A. A. Milne

“You need to start making an effort,” Richard said. “There’s a thing called the gay scene nowadays. It happens in large cities – London,…

— Philip Hensher

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

— G K Chesterton

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

— Harvey Mackay

A diary means yes indeed.

— Gertrude Stein

The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a…

— Sheila Bender

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose…

— Anais Nin

Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of…

— Anne Frank

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Lemn Sissay

Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality:…

— Frank Smith

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

— Virginia Woolf

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to…

— Erica Jong

“Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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…

— Jonathan Dimbleby