Diaries Quote by Leonard Woolf

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

— Andy Cohen

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading…

— Agnes Repplier

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.”

— Ben Abix

Hmmm! n there r many diaries written n most of them are about ourselves! but a diary of friendz!! zz like showing that these…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

“Diaries are very futile. I must be all dream or all deed. It is quite impossible for me to express any of the beauty…

— Wallace Stevens

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that…

— Burton Silverman

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

— Indro Montanelli

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd