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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. — Christina Baldwin

In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. — Susan Sontag

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. — Richard Powers

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now. — Jonathan Carroll

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action. — Jim Rogers

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me. — Sue Monk Kidd

For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness. — Oprah Winfrey

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts. — Sue Monk Kidd

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. — Pearl Cleage

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them. — Oscar Wilde

Write a daily gratitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop. — George Sand

The best time to begin keeping a journal is whenever you decide to. — Hannah Hinchman

She's clutching the worn leather journal. It's ironic how it now seems like a safety blanket for her, yet to him, it represents a tragic nightmare. — Ella Frank

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness. — Rand Olson

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible. — Dawna Markova

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. — George Fetherling

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent. — Ariel Gore

have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A prominent mention in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago garnered me a whopping 40 visitors. — Steve Rubel

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not. — Martina Navratilova

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. — William Boyd

Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal. — Madonna Ciccone

A grateful journal, joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep a grateful journal. You will be amazed about the heavenly blessings in your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Combat worry, such as keeping a prayer journal and rereading it when I'm under attack. — Lynn Austin

average article written in a specialized academic journal is probably lucky to find 100 readers. — Richard H. Thaler

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. — Dodie Smith

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal. — Dan Deacon

These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book. — Anonymous

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song. — Judy Collins

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing. — Alysha Speer

Until you take a pen to write, then you will see the miracle of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Readers of my online journal - I refuse to use the word blog because it sounds like something that lives on a riverbed and communicates through farts — Yahtzee Croshaw

He felt the journal in his pocket. It was like a pair of glasses that he had worn for a time, enabling him to see a world he didn't even know existed. — Rebecca Rash

I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal. — Rodney Brooks

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory. — Jim Rohn

I laugh and go back to looking at my magazine. Actually, it's not really a magazine. It's a math journal, because I'm super cool like that. — Tarryn Fisher

Your diary should be a nepenthe. — Joe Dunthorne

For the gifts I have given Man, I have never desired admiration. But I hope for forgiveness. -Atlas Journal Excerpt, 2023 A.D. — Craig Gehring

All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful. — Jack Kerouac

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal. — Abigail Van Buren

No matter what you put into the journal, it becomes a reflection of who you are, who you think you are and who you want to be. — Eric M. Scott

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal. — Madeleine L'Engle

Writing is an outlet, but it's not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it. — Amelia Gray

And isn't that such a freeing thing, to talk to somebody who already feels like your journal? — Leila Sales

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends. — Tom Brokaw

I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks? — Lailah Gifty Akita

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander. — George William Curtis

Learning is a journal not a destination — Ian Bullock

The last person who wrote about me for the Wall Street Journal didn't even know the difference between machine memory and a floppy! — Brent Schlender

A Quote from Monty's journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand. — J.D. Winston

Keep a gratitude journal. Write down at least three things a day you are either thankful for, made you smile or genuinely inspired you. — Robert Holden

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

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective. — Alexandra Johnson

I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say. — Paul Auster

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person. — Philip K. Dick

History must be documented; every moment is a sacred history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books light the fire - whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in. — Meg Wolitzer

I still can't manage to keep a journal, and people have been telling me to since the fourth grade. — John Darnielle

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. — Carl Sandburg

Finn was meant to find that journal. To find me. To be a salve, and perhaps even heal, a heart I'd worried was destined to ache forever. — Jessica Hawkins

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head. — Haley Pullos

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. — Dani Shapiro

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. — Jim Rohn

Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here. — Henry David Thoreau

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal. — Samuel Johnson

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. — Robert Macfarlane

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. — Washington Irving

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said. — Henry David Thoreau

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs. — Nate Silver

A woman's journal is like a door to her soul; men can't open it, but they are definitely a part of it! — J.D. Stroube

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

Jeff got an idea that might work. What if he wrote an illustrated journal from the point of view of a middle-school kid? — Patrick Kinney

Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow. — Jennifer New

The act of self-expression - through writing a journal or letters - often enables a survivor to distance himself from his fears. — Nathaniel Philbrick

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

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. — Heather O'Reilly

At the end of the day in business, it's not about peer review and getting into a scientific journal. You either increase sales, or not. — Guy Kawasaki

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one's heart. — Ted Kooser

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. — Henry David Thoreau

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine. — Oprah Winfrey

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one. — Jami Attenberg

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. — James Boswell

Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his hive's back room. — Dennis Vickers

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from. — Jessie Baylin

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. — Noel Fisher

Whether written in the stars of the pages of a journal, a dream still blossoms from the heart of the person who possesses the pen. — Rhonda Laurel

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. — Jean Cocteau

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. — Sara Sheridan

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. — Maureen Corrigan

Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. — Deepak Burfiwala

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. — J.K. Rowling

A darkened theater. Final whispers. Black. The projector streams through. The picture surrounds. I fall away. You reach me. — Jolene Stockman

Keep your dreams close to heart.
Make a short-note about your dreams in a journal.
Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono, Tin noted in the journal he was sporadically keeping then. Every cloud has a silver lining. — Margaret Atwood