Doe Quote by Dave Eggers

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

“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

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“Writing [my journal] was the only way I could keep track of the last experience before a new one came along and erased the…

— Kristine K. Stevens

Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs…

— Faith Salie

“Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they're the only reason she's still even vaguely okay…

— Steph Bowe

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“If it was her diary, it would be wrong to open it. More wrong than leaving her dead in the hallway for the better…

— C.J. Omololu

“Her mind had been a blank story for so many years, and, suddenly, all the pages were filled with lost memories.”

— Rachel M. Greenebaum

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the…

— Roger N. Walsh

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very…

— Oscar Wilde

“She has a bookshelf for a heart, and ink runs through her veins, she’ll write you into her story with the typewriter in her…

— E.H