I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.
Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.
I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart
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.
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
My diary seems to keep me whole.
I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.
[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem, the leader of South Vietnam.
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
I've kept a diary since I was 11.
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial. . . Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost. . . I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!
Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.
I think it's always been very natural. I don't write a diary - it's reflections and thoughts and feelings that come to me at a certain point, and when I go back to my old records, they capture the time I was in then.
Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. . . . As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.
I wish that I had re-edited 'Theft By Finding' after I did the audio. Because the audio took 40 hours in the studio, and I was standing on my feet. So toward the end of it I'd be looking at certain diary entries and I would think, "Is this really worth my time to read this out loud?" And I would think, "No, it is not. " I would have cut out 75 pages, just because I was tired of standing up.
