Diary Quotes
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The
alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally
lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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More Diary Quotes
"Nothing important happened today." - King George's diary entry, July 4th, 1776, the same day the American colonies declared their independence.
— Arnold Hunt, curator at the British Library, says King George never kept a diary.
Her poetry is the diary or autobiography though few diaries or autobiographies compare with it for intentional and, especially, unintentional truth of an acute psychologist, a wonderful rhetorician, and one of the most individual writers who ever lived, one of those best able to express experience at its most nearly absolute.
— Randall Jarrell, "The Year in Poetry," Harper's (October 1955); republished in Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980) [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, ISBN 0-374-51668-5], p. 244
When all is said and done, leading a good life is more important than keeping a good diary.
— 1923 Diary entry, 8 Jul.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story , and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 1 : The Love-Light
By nature of me being the one singing it and writing it there is always an innate bit of autobiography there ... but I think I learned years ago that you don't get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it's too much diary entry.
leslie feist— As quoted in "Just Feist. Just Wait." by Jon Pareles in The New York Times (15 April 2007)
You may be keeping a diary of your thoughts but know that, in every religion, the God you believe is keeping a diary of your actions.
steve maraboli— p. 32 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
wallace stevens— Journal entry (26 July 1899); as published in Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens (1977) edited by Holly Stevens, Ch. 3
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
oscar wilde— Gwendolen, Act II
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
virginia woolf— Wednesday 8 April 1925
But do you know that, although I have kept the diary [on a phonograph] for months past, it never once struck me how I was going to find any particular part of it in case I wanted to look it up?|
— Dr Seward in Bram Stoker's (1897) Dracula
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
— Rev. George Dawson, Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library.
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred kreymborg— Old Manuscript.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
oscar wilde— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895.
The Secret diary of Adrian Mole Aged13.
Sue Townsend— 4 1982 Title of book.
diary of Always
— "I'm the one distinctly plain to you, for a solemn glance is another hopeful taste."
I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts ... just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown .... [being given] free rein [by director Christopher Nolan was] fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."
heath ledger— Interview remarks published in Empire, from interviews conducted in November 2007.
— Dan Jolin (January 2008). "Fear Has a Face". Empire 223: 87–88. Retrieved on 2008-07-08.
— Dan Jolin (July 2008). "The Dark Knight". Empire 229: 92–100. Retrieved on 2008-08-18.
— Olly Richards (November 28, 2007). "World Exclusive: The Joker Speaks: He's a Cold-blooded Mass-murdering Clown" (Web). Empire (Bauer Verlagsgruppe). Retrieved on 2008-08-18.
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
anaïs nin— As quoted in Woman As Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 42
If we've learned anything from the best-selling diary of a Wimpy Kid children's book series, it's that those who see themselves surrounded by idiots are usually idiots themselves.
— Jakob Augstein, in "Stubborn and Egotistical: Europe Is Right to Doubt German Euro Leadership" in Spiegel Online (25 March 2013)
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
art spiegelman— On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (1978; 2008) as quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff in New York magazine (8 October 2008)
