Diaries Quote by Fanny Burney

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

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If I can change the world at least 1% to peace, truth and altruistic lovingkindness through my writing, my life will not have been…

— Mark F. Kalita

I'd chosen to dedicate my life to writing, and I asked myself, 'if you write your whole life, and nobody ever sees a word,…

— Nathan Englander

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't…

— Francoise Sagan

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in…

— Lauren Oliver

“When I write, all those that we don’t know we can be write themselves from me, without exclusion, without prediction, and everything that we…

— Hélène Cixous

I’d like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in…

— Anonymous

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets,…

— May Sarton

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero