Diaries Quotes · Page 7

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

— Jon Pareles

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a…

— Rob Thomas

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

— Charlotte Moss

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he…

— Hugh B. Brown

I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking…

— Jo Yoon-hee

For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I…

— Daniel Rigby

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

— Nelson Mandela

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there…

— Wallace Stevens

Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after…

— David Sedaris

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some…

— Raina Telgemeier

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since…

— Hedi Slimane

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular…

— James Buchan

I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now…

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton…

— David Sedaris

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and…

— Rachel Caine

I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know,…

— Kat Graham

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all…

— Will Rogers

“And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that…

— L.J. Smith

Writing my own diary is the best form of remembrance, but only for my own use. I need these notes; it's like…

— Orhan Pamuk

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Hmmm! n there r many diaries written n most of them are about ourselves! but a diary of friendz!! zz like showing…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

— Liv Tyler

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

— Luke Bryan

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

— Gabriele Munter

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

— Jilly Cooper

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every…

— Jim Atkinson

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily…

— Nick Cave

By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just…

— Ella Henderson

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

— Anne Frank

In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

— Eudora Welty

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a…

— Tallulah Bankhead

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

— Kate Bush

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people,…

— Anais Nin

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

— Pablo Picasso

My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my…

— Charlotte Rampling

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like…

— Judi Dench

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

— Caitlin Flanagan