Defense Quote by Sarah Manguso

“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.…

— Sarah Manguso

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

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus…

— Alissa Nutting

My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready…

— Zlata Filipović

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

— Oscar Wilde

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time…

— Orhan Pamuk

If you were to write a diary and you held things back, when you went back to look at it when you were older,…

— Ellie Rowsell

I mean that this diary holds memories of terrible things. Things that were covered up. Things that happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…

— Tom Riddle

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.

— Colleen McCullough

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

— Enoch Powell

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back…

— Andy Cohen

I've always used diaries to pour out my feelings at the end of each day, as a sort of therapy.

— Sheila Hancock