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Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded. — Herbert S. White

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

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 horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal — H.W. Brands

Talking to myself in my journal qualified as talking to someone my own age. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan

Are you reading off notes?"
"No." Gansey closed his journal. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

We are all aliens to ourselves. — Paul Auster

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

...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness. — Alan Pauls

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

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules — Meg Cabot

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears! — Gary Goldstein

A grateful journal, joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana — Meg Cabot

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

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. — Harvey Pekar

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

Was I really reading my roommate's journal behind his back? Of course I was. — Junot Diaz

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

Good, I haven't written anything in two weeks except what I've written in my journal.
And that is good? What kind of standards are you using? — Dora Okeyo

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

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal. — Pharrell Williams

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them. — Dan Jenkins

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal. — Elizabeth Daily

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
Labs. — Dennis Ritchie

When my journal appears, many statues must come down. — Arthur Wellesley

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

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

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

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

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
(Online journal entry for January 31, 2009) — Neil Gaiman

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

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

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

The power of the pen is landmark of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

There was no reason for Elizabeth Knoebel to suspect that this was going to be the last day of her life. — L.T. Graham

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

See Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson "Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research," Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (2005). — Douglas Holt

I was an angst-y journal writing kid. — Justin Halpern

No worn, ink-drenched leather journal for the period from October 11 through December 23, 1900, could be found. — Graham Moore

I write awe-thoughts flowing in my mind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I used to love writing in my journal. — Tyra Banks

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — Annie Dillard

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

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

Mum, at Sam's funeral, I didn't cry ... is that
is that normal?"
"Lauren, write in your journal and you'll feel better. — Amelia Mysko

My centaur, Annette thinks, as she looks out the window trying to ignore Dwayne, would find my journal interesting and moving. — Megan Giddings

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

My journal is my life's companion. — Christina Baldwin

That IS what journal writing is all about - showing ourselves to God. — Frank McCourt

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

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. — Jay Leno

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

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink. — Rachel L. Schade

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.' — Moby

Whether ideas like this are inspiration or insomnia, I don't know," he writes in his journal. "I do things by sixth sense." Patton — Bill O'Reilly

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

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift

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

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. — David Lynch

The keyboard is my journal. — Pharrell Williams

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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

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

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

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. — Kenneth Williams

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live — Rachele Baker

One would think the more obtrusive setting would create the greatest impact, but instead it is the solitude that presses with more force. — Elizabeth Crook

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal. — Dennis Miller

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