Diaries Quotes

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

I think that the Peeps or Peppies or Pipes diaries would be much more popular had there been a universal pronuncation of his name.

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

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

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

[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.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

It seems to me that [Andy Cohen] can write these diaries forever.

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

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.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

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

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.

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

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me.

I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

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

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

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?

I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.

Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.