Big Quote by Tavi Gevinson

My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.

— Stefan Sagmeister

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

— Oprah Winfrey

If my house caught fire I would save myself and anyone in there and I would try and save all the diaries and letters…

— Dominic Monaghan

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and…

— Richard Powers

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

— Terry Brooks

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for…

— Patti Smith

Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

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

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people…

— Janet Jackson

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I…

— James Salter

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal.

— Rodney Brooks

Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up.

— Jimmie Allen