“The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.” KnowsMindLastsHoursRecordsHappenedExerciseInvitationsDiaries Author:Lynda Barry
“A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventfulthen, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.” MenBookHandsForgetPayRecordsBusyDuesEmptinessPensDiariesTediousTolls Book:Poems Source: Poems
“A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.” MenAgeActionRecordsMiddleYouthReflectionOld AgeSentimentsDiariesMiddle Ages Author:John Quincy Adams
“when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?” IfsGivingFirstsSaidWonderRecordsWhat IfDiariesInner Life Book:The Janet Frame reader Source: The Janet Frame reader
“My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.” SelfFactsInterestingRecordsMotiveEthicalConfessionRepentDiariesShamelessInvestigators Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary
“You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.” KnowsKindTogetherDecisionRecordsIntellectualPicksAlbumsCollectionsDiariesFunny ThingsEntryMusingsDiary Entries Author:Glen Hansard