Diaries Quotes · Page 5

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

— Anonymous

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

— David Rockefeller

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

— Mark Alan Stamaty

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

— Leonard Woolf

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

— Oscar Wilde

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

— Paula Cole

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

— Wade Bowen

“Very touching," said a voice from the stairway. "Do you want me to imitate a violin?" - Damon”

— L.J. Smith

Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two…

— Helen Fielding

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

— Jenna Wortham

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

— Anais Nin

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I…

— Alex Garland

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she…

— Michael Palin

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the…

— William Allingham

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating…

— John Fowles

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love…

— Andy Cohen

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal…

— Matthew McConaughey

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give…

— Virginia Woolf

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One…

— James Lecesne

And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see…

— Tom Cole

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may…

— Alice James

“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to…

— Franz Kafka

My diaries are so important to me. If I lost them I would be heartbroken, because I keep a record of every…

— Eddie Howe

Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to…

— Joe Dunthorne

I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea…

— Anne Frank

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the…

— Anne Frank

Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind…

— Jeanette Winterson

So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high…

— Kelly Link

“Or rather, it made him into two people. He was by nature a cheerful almost irrepressible person with a great zest for…

— Humphrey Carpenter

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

— Andy Cohen

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

— Nikki Grimes

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

— Golda Meir

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

— Anne Frank

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

— Anonymous

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

— Kurt Cobain

'Carrie Diaries' is very heartfelt and earnest in a lot of ways.

— Matt Letscher

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to…

— Helen Fielding

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

— Richard Peck