Diaries Quote by Tim Lucas

“He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent…

— P.D. James

“Ah, and this is the trouble with a diary. We are allowed to stand too long before its mirror and gaze at ourselves, where…

— Eowyn Ivey

“One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary”

— George Orwell

“Indeed, the diary demands, in a way, the maximum fictionalizing of the utterer and the addressee. Writing is always a kind of imitation talking,…

— Walter J. Ong

“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure and a…

— Anaïs Nin

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

— Ambrose Bierce

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the…

— Hugh B. Brown

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no…

— Wallace Stevens

“all great men keep diaries. It gives a sense of direction, it documents where your days went, and it serves as a tool for…

— Preeti Shenoy

“The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary…

— David McCullough

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

— John Quincy Adams