Keeping a journal Quote by Michael Finkel

“It wasn’t really a journal. I tried keeping a journal, but it would always be one long entry filling the first seven pages, and…

— Charlotte Leonetti

The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who…

— Maurice Blanchot

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

— Gore Vidal

“Whenever he was unclear about some idea or emotion, uncertain in his perception of someone or vague about a memory, he sat to his…

— James Carlos Blake

“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“At certain periods it becomes the dearest ambition of a man to keep a faithful record of his performances in a book; and he…

— Mark Twain

“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall…

— Shaun Jeffrey

“Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.”

— Norman Mailer

“If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts…

— Beatrice Sparks

“...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting…

— Gabriel García Márquez

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able…

— Mark Twain