Journal Quotes · Page 4

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

— Allison Silverman

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas…

— Jim Rohn

Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you…

— Max Lucado

Interesting survey in the current Journal of Abnormal Psychology: New York City has a higher percentage of people you shouldn't make any…

— David Letterman

Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night…

— Elizabeth Crook

“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys…

— Cuthbert Soup

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen…

— Christopher Paolini

I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My…

— Julianna Baggott

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will…

— Louis C. K

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

— James Boswell

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust…

— Jim Rohn

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

— Erica Jong

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

— Ani DiFranco

“Black Girl Magic is a wily cat to some. A unicorn of myth for others. But to those who can wrangle it…

— N.D. Jones

I really like to read when I'm eating - 'The New York Times' or the 'Wall Street Journal,' paper version.

— Kevin Nealon

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

— William Boyd

It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three…

— MaryJanice Davidson

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb,…

— Susan Sontag

I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars…

— Jim Rohn

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

— Jim Jarmusch

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm…

— Donald Cram

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published…

— Aaron Swartz

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

— Virginia Woolf