Journal writing Quote by Anaïs Nin

“A woman's journal is like a door to her soul; men can't open it, but they are definitely a part of it!”

— J.D. Stroube

“If I’m unhappy with how female stories are portrayed, then at least I can do something about it. The great thing about being a…

— Elinor Cook

“Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at…

— Jane Austen

“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.”

— Jarod Kintz

If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to…

— Emily Gould

“for the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act of writing…

— Oliver Sacks

“Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov

“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is…

— Jean Stafford

“It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.”

— Alexandra Johnson

“Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.”

— Christina Baldwin

“An intimate journal has its own form of being and nothing exists, whether a living being or still pages, that isn't communicative, that has…

— Shimon Ballas