Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
My diary seems to keep me whole.
I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.
[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.
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.
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.
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.
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.
[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.
In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.
Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
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.
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!
Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.