Been Quote by Mariette Hartley

I've been keeping tour journals since I was 17 years old.

— Laura Jane Grace

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

— Alexandra Johnson

Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit…

— Kate Christensen

“I started keeping journals when I was fourteen and at last count had nearly a thousand. They come in all shapes and sizes, from…

— Oliver Sacks

Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I…

— Wilford Woodruff

But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one…

— Meg Wolitzer

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that…

— Edmund White

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents.

— William John Wills

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,…

— John Cheever

“The journals may give you an opportunity to express your feelings without inviting further tables.”

— David Patneaude

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still…

— Amy Tan