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“I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.”

Feels Beautiful Hours Half Alive Duty Journal Diaries Half Hours Beautiful Places Keeping A Journal Naming Things

Author:May Sarton

“The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.”

Writing Journey Roots Distance Traveled Journal Diaries

Author:Sheila Bender

“My diary seems to keep me whole.”

Whole Seems Journal Diaries

Author:Anais Nin

“Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.”

Thinking Writing Wells Three Challenges Novel Written Prison Leaving Diaries New Challenges

Author:Jeffrey Archer

“Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.”

Ifs Writing I Can Heaven Diaries

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.”

Writing Essentials Elements Vitality Diaries

Author:Anais Nin

“If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.”

Ifs Want Writing Diaries Blogs

Author:James Patterson

“Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.”

Song Reading Listening Diaries

Author:Taylor Swift

“I really love "Bridget Jones's Diary" - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?”

Made Two Book Guy Fighting Wonder Supposed To Be Diaries Straight Up Hottest Bridget Jones

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.”

Way Mind Wells Done Shows Form Painting Visuals Diaries Fixing Fixing Things

Author:Judi Dench

“I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined.”

Want Giving Writing Years Littles Remember Used Lucky Happenings Give Me Luck Spread Now And Then Ruined Seventies Remember When Diaries

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.”

Want Feels Kind Film Causes Industry Music Is Diaries Music Industry

Author:Miley Cyrus

“It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.”

Reason Problem Seems Order Boring Cosmic Journal Diaries Examining So Boring

Book:Picturing Will

Source: Picturing Will

“You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.”

Should Firsts Names Stars Change Records Please Decided Radio Video Just Being Diaries Being Myself Old Saying Very True

Author:Vanilla Ice

“The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.”

Made Ideas Brilliant Comic Translations Diaries Brilliant Ideas

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.”

Men Love Giving Age Political Order Goal Struggle Sacrifice Giving Up Determination Firm Diaries Suffrage Women's Suffrage

Author:Isabel Allende

“I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.”

Knows Next Sleep Wall Boxes Paris Bags Apartment Shelves Closets Diaries

Author:Thomas Mallon

“Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.”

“I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.”

Source: The diary of a young girl

“The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him."”

Men Giving Littles Moments Party Numbers Wife Minutes Ought Give Me Mad My Wife Rats Telephones Diaries Emma Marry Me Little Man

Author:Julian Fellowes

“Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.”

Father Perfect Diaries Norwegians

Author:Roald Dahl

“I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.”

Albums Diaries

Author:Paula Cole

“You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.”

Knows World Mind Would Be Theory Pops Spontaneous Diaries Blogs Be Spontaneous

Author:Gregg Easterbrook

“Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.”

Way Should Writing Helping Spiritual Mistake Practice Records Meditation Written Habit Bed Faults Mere Evening Devoted Documents Diaries Transactions Spiritual Practice Good Habits

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.”

Language Pages Adults Doctors Practicals Intimate Instruction Regimes Severe Diaries Johnson Polished Stylish

Author:Robert Burchfield

“To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.”

Giving Form Difficult Records Special Honesty Happenings Everyday Appetite Diaries Effectiveness Banality Triviality Appetite For Life

Book:Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]

Source: Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]

“I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.”

Feels Writing Sometimes Song Happened Diaries Entry Diary Entries

Author:Sara Bareilles

“I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.”

Writing Interest Entrepreneur Diaries

Author:Ben Casnocha

“Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.”

World Way Book Reality Found Literature Honest Frank Harsh Diaries Impatient Literal Frivolous Harsh Reality Not Honest

Author:Alexandra Fuller

“I've kept a diary since I was 11.”

Diaries

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.”

Time Happenings Someday Diaries Calendars

Author:Mae West

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

Writing Diaries

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I don't want to be singing my diary.”

Want Singing Diaries

Author:Norah Jones

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