Diaries Quotations | Page 2

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

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.

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell