In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
I'm keeping a journal of everything that's happening now. When I'm 50, I want to go back and read it. — Kristin Cavallari Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts.… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t really a journal. I tried keeping a journal, but it would always be one long entry filling the first seven… — Charlotte Leonetti Copy Share Image
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“Never stop writing. Whether you’re writing a novel, screen play or just keeping a journal, it’s integral that you make writing a… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
“Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights,… — Roger N. Walsh Copy Share Image
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Of course we will send postcards to Nutsawoo. And we shall bring him back a present as well. In fact,' she went… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“Now I must give one smirk, and then we may be rational again." Catherine turned away her head, not knowing whether she… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Let’s take it slow because I’d like each moment we share to be etched in my memory. And I’d like these memories… — Nessie Q Copy Share Image
“I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Be careful who you let define your good. —Lois McMaster Bujold, science fiction writer • Why is learning to sift through possibilities… — Whitney Johnson Copy Share Image
“If I had kept a journal, I could go back through it and check up on what memory reports plausibly but not… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
“David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate of the personal, the diurnal minutiae,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
![“Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view…” quote by Wilford Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c1/wilford-woodruff-13197_children_some-may-say-journal-keeping-is-a-great_1788809.jpg)
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