Action Quote by Rosamond Lehmann

“If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.”

— Mark Twain

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

— Doris Lessing

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff,…

— Tavi Gevinson

“I think it’s pretty common for teenagers to fantasize about dying young. We knew that time would force us into sacrifices—we wanted to flame…

— Julie Buntin

Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity.…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The object is not so much to get you to keep a journal while you are young, as it is to get you to…

— Wilford Woodruff

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or…

— Laura Z. Hobson

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put…

— Deborah Ellis

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the…

— John Lanchester

If I die soon, don't ever say I died too young.

— Doug Stanhope

Make your life a story worth telling. You only get one shot at this existence, and one day when you’re gone the most important…

— Adam Braun

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an…

— Terry Pratchett