Diaries Quotes · Page 5

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

— Peter Beard

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

— Caroline B. Cooney

“If life is a meal, then diaries are the toilets in which we shit out its vile remnants.”

— Sarah Silverman

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.

— Joe Dunthorne

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anne Frank

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

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my…

— Chris Hardwick

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

— Richard Peck

When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for…

— Anonymous

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as…

— Anderson Cooper

Cant believe I'm leaveing, got my boxes by the door, sorting through my memories cross legged on the floor, my diaries and…

— Eliza Doolittle

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

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

Don't tell girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that…

— Sarah Silverman

Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've…

— Lou Doillon

We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and…

— Hank Stuever

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

I was very proud of that, of taking women and making them vulnerable and so I continued doing that. Right after Beaches…

— Garry Marshall

But I also believe there is enormous value in the piece of writing that goes no further than the one person for…

— Betsy Lerner

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 remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted…

— Anonymous

There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively…

— Philip Kitcher

When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts…

— David Byrne

The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like…

— William Klein

Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever…

— Joe Dunthorne

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as…

— Erin Gruwell

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

The short version is that I started an internet diary a long, long time ago (six years!) because I was bored with…

— Jason Mulgrew

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

— Nikki Grimes

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

— Matt Letscher

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

— Kurt Cobain

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

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

— Claire Foy

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

— Oscar Wilde