Contemporary Quote by Walter Scott

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

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

— Caitlin Flanagan

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

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a…

— A. C. Benson

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they…

— Benjamin Clementine

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

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

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

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Franz Kafka

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final…

— Lawrence Durrell

Everyone should have a form of a diary its a great release Most peoples Diaries are called My Diary Mines called Conversations with Me.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich