Keeping a journal Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“I had started keeping a journal, and I was discovering that I didn't need school in order to experience the misery of appearances. I…

— Jonathan Franzen

“What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after that evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. I chafed against…

— James Joyce

“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

“It had a crisp paper jacket, unlike the paper-covered library books I was used to, and the way the pages parted, I could tell…

— Allison Hoover Bartlett

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

“While I was in bed, I thought about journals. I’d never kept one. I’d never given them much thought. Was there a comfort in…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“I took out my journal. I'd been avoiding writing in it. I think I was afraid all my anger would spill out on the…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do…

— Dee Williams

“Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy…

— Anne Lamott

“When I was in eighth grade, I used a self-timing camera to take nude pictures of myself in various stages of erection. I then…

— Dani Alexander