Capricious Quote by Fanny Burney

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so…

— Lucy Larcom

“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s something about…

— Wayne Gladstone

“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

“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who I am,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

— Sue Townsend

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate.…

— Susan Sontag

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I…

— Eugene Delacroix

Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand,…

— Anna Kamienska

“I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

“What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn,…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Alexandra Johnson

“This journal will stay hidden among the dusty coverless books lining my bookshelf until the day I need to be reminded of who I…

— Laekan Zea Kemp