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  • Keeping a journal implies hope.

    Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
  • It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

    Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation
  • Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

    Life   Grief   Sadness  
    C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.7, Faber & Faber
  • My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either.

  • If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  • I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

    Men   Space   Omission  
    Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271
  • This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

    Addiction   Drug   Vices  
  • My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

    Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Important   Way   Helping  
    Martina Navratilova (2007). “Shape Your Self: My 6-Step Diet and Fitness Plan to Achieve the Best Shape of Your Life”, p.21, Rodale
  • Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

    Powerful   Writing   Way  
    Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.422, Mango Media Inc.
  • Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  • 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 (2011). “VALIS”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

    Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan
  • If you feel like keeping a journal-that neither you nor anyone else on earth will ever want to read-be my guest. But if you want to write something that may eventually see the light of day, that a magazine might buy or a publisher publish, then you'll have to knock off the journaling and do the grunt work that real writing requires.

    Real   Writing   Light  
    Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.11, Writer's Digest Books
  • Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

    "Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.
  • I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

    Speech   Young   Therapy  
  • I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.

    Writing   Long   Mind  
  • I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

    Song   People   Feelings  
  • In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.

    Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.322, Macmillan
  • I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

    Writing   Diaries   Kind  
    "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919".
  • Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

  • I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

    Fun   School   Maturity  
    "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
  • Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.

    Voice   Waiting   Anxiety  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

    Heart   Care   Journal  
    Ted Kooser (2014). “The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press
  • Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

  • I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

    "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Interview, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.
  • Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

    Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books
  • There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • People who keep journals have life twice

    Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”
  • Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

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