Diaries Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

— Caitlin Flanagan

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

— Enoch Powell

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

To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and…

— William Plomer

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

— Peter Beard

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

— Karl Pilkington

People don't keep diary's for themselves, they keep them for other people, like a secret they don't want to tell, but they want everyone…

— Anonymous

There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give…

— Alberto Moravia

I don't need a diary for my secrets I have friends for that.

— Me

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but…

— Jeff Kinney

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

— Franz Kafka