A diary is a home for the day’s breath—where memory sits down, listens, and becomes story. As Gertrude Stein affirmed: “A diary means yes indeed.” 📓✨

A journal is the path of pebbles you leave behind you, so you have the security of knowing you can always return. ~ Samara O’Shea

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one’s own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. ~ Virginia Woolf

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it’s boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes. ~ Erica Jong

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you’re born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly. ~ Jill Cooper

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~ Pablo Picasso

Writing is the most powerful way I know of to sort through all the inner voices. ~ Rebecca Maddox

Write a true, careless, slovenly, impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. ~ Brenda Ueland

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in a train. ~ Oscar Wilde

The diary is the only form of writing that encourages total freedom of expression… it can come closest to reproducing how consciousness evolves. ~ Tristine Rainer

In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I will write myself into well-being. ~ Nancy Mairs

There’s something about a blank page that makes me tingle. ~ Nikki Grimes, Jazmin’s Notebook