I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate
Isabel Colegate
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.
Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Stephanie Barron,
Stephanie Barron,
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened incomplete version of the writer.
RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, 01-05-04
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.
Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
Fran Lebowitz
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened incomplete version of the writer.
RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, 01-05-04
If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear.
Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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