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