Honest Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down…

— Madeleine L'Engle

If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you…

— Robert Masello

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the…

— Howard Nemerov

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

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

— Jackie Collins

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a…

— Anonymous

Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.

— George Singleton

“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

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your…

— Joseph Bruchac

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write,…

— Gay Talese

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

— Albert Brooks

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because…

— Max Lucado