Being Quote by Emily Giffin

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

— Margaret MacMillan

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

— Jo Brand

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a…

— Steffi Graf

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

Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that…

— Nancy Werlin

Before I read 'Twilight,' I was in a reading funk. This series brought back my love and obsession for reading.

— Anna Todd

I think that as a kid I was pretty drawn to melodrama.

— Phil Elverum

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you…

— Michael Palin

I read 'The Young Landlords' and felt almost a chemical change. What I realized while reading that book was that I could write in…

— Jason Reynolds

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

— Orhan Pamuk