The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers. . . great talkers.
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
A diary means yes indeed.
Memory. . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.
I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.
Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book. ' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
I will write myself into well-being.
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.
The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.