Common Quote by Claire Tomalin

I maintained a diary when I was a child and had all the happenings jotted down.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that…

— Kathe Kollwitz

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days…

— Jonathan Stroud

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

— Enoch Powell

I've always used diaries to pour out my feelings at the end of each day, as a sort of therapy.

— Sheila Hancock

If you were to write a diary and you held things back, when you went back to look at it when you were older,…

— Ellie Rowsell

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life…

— Richard E. Grant

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

— Robert Musil

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal…

— Ariel Gore

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

— Jo Brand

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they…

— Benjamin Clementine

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus…

— Alissa Nutting