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Quotes About Diary

Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment—that just anyone could like you. No matter.
~ Gillian Flynn
The cabin-passenger wrote in his diary a parody of Descartes: 'I feel discomfort, therefore I am alive.
~ Graham Greene
Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.
~ Dion DiMucci
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.
~ Miranda July
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
~ Francois Truffaut
Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.
~ Ben Dolnick
The Diary of Samuel Sewall,' 'The Diary of John Winthrop,' these are easy for anyone to get their hands on. This was really common stuff and there's tons of cases of demon possession.
~ Robert Eggers
He took the diary from Mother's hand and turned it over. The heartbreaking something, he read, of a tragic whatever.
~ Shalom Auslander
To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
To be fair, no eyewitness account or papyrus diary entries survive, and one wonders whether professional jealousy played a role. After all, no one was calling Tertullian the Father of Anatomy.
~ Mary Roach
When her brother turned Pearl Harbor over to the Americans in 1887, she wrote in her diary that it was "a day of infamy in Hawaiian history.
~ Stephen Kinzer
In his diary, Tudor noted that he had lost nearly four thousand dollars with his tropical misadventure.
~ Steven Johnson
I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.
~ Jo Yoon-hee
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.
~ Art Spiegelman
My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary
~ Joseph Delaney
Durante o transcorrer de nove meses, um homem pode pensar em muitas coisas, desde o mais alto conceito filosófico até o desejo mais abjeto por um prato de sopa – tudo de acordo com o estado de seu estômago. E se, ao mesmo tempo, esse homem for do tipo aventureiro, ele poderá viver experiências que talvez interessem às demais pessoas e seu relato casual se parecerá com este diário.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
Today, I made a log of farts.
~ Esther Pearl Watson
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
~ Eudora Welty
Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live .. I would wait
~ Eva Heyman
Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
~ Mary Gaitskill
My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
~ Oliver Sim
Even though Anne was almost ten years younger than I was, at times I almost had the inclination to tell her things that were very private. I know that she valued hearing about such intimacies. She asked me very personal questions on a number of occasions. I resisted telling her everything because I knew she was keeping a diary and I didn't want her to write about personal matters, which I might have revealed.
~ Bep Voskuijl
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
~ Christopher Columbus
To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
~ Enoch Powell