Journal Quote by Susan Sontag

I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say to be…

— Jade Bird

“Says I to myself” should be the motto of my journal. It is fatal to the writer to be too much possessed by his…

— Henry David Thoreau

“for the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act of writing…

— Oliver Sacks

Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate.…

— Susan Sontag

There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers,…

— Angeles Mastretta

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

— Megan Fox

You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

— Gangaji

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

— William Boyd

When I write for myself, I just get to be myself.

— Bonnie McKee

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

— Susan Sontag

I journal a lot for nobody but myself. Just to get my thoughts out and to clear my mind. That's very therapeutic to me.

— Lili Reinhart

I don't worry about being exposed. When I'm writing about myself I think about myself as a character. There is a ton of stuff…

— David Sedaris