Journals Quotes

Journals Quote of the day

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

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

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

The grace of writing is upon me.I love writing. I write daily.

Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.

I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.

I must get my soul back from you

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of...