Journal Quotes

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• 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
  • Wanted
  • Pauses
  • Interiors

• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Reading
  • Lines
  • Hunting

• First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.

  

  Reggie Lee
  • First
  • Journal
  • Meditate

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterms that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Life
  • Words
  • Simple

• When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Journal

• I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Really
  • Journal

• I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Stuff
  • Maintain
  • Crucial

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Clarity

• I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Poetry
  • Kept
  • Essays

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

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Diaries
  • Reason Why

• 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.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Song
  • Feelings

• I keep a journal/day planner, which really helps me stay organized and focused.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Help
  • Focused
  • Organized

• I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Alone

• I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Change
  • New
  • Journal

• If Rudy Giuliani`s offense was that "Wallstreet Journal" did a round table where he openly campaigned for it, and said he didn`t want to be attorney general and that he was better qualified for it, then certainly Senator [Bob] Corker would seem to be, you know, among the best choices.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Choices
  • Offense
  • Attorney

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Gratitude

• Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Night
  • Change

• I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

  

  Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Journal

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

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Imagine

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

  

  William Boyd
  • Individual
  • Form
  • Collections

• Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Writing
  • Spirit
  • Focused

• It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Write
  • Journal
  • Ordeal

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