Clearing Quote by Dani Shapiro

I've been keeping journals since I was a kid.

— Mariette Hartley

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

— Alexandra Johnson

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“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

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what…

— Miranda Cosgrove

“I started keeping journals when I was fourteen and at last count had nearly a thousand. They come in all shapes and sizes, from…

— Oliver Sacks

I used to love writing in my journal.

— Tyra Banks

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

Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes…

— Timothee Chalamet

I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time writing down…

— Christopher Plummer

I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to…

— Garrett Hedlund

I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs,…

— Lucinda Williams