Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

— Noah Cyrus

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

— David Sedaris

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

— Peter Greenaway

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

— David Sedaris

Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while,…

— Emma Donoghue

I've got a habit of writing about everything I go through.

— Akon

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

— Jo Brand

I only wrote one diary to be read by others. I went on an exchange to France, working as an au pair, when I…

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Enoch Powell

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal…

— Ariel Gore

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey