DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal. " -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337
Though with Bridget Jones's Baby: the Diaries, I'd like to make it clear that I did not ever get pregnant by two men.
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
. . . I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.
The very idea of printing my diary has always struck me as completely superficial.
I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.
I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.
The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
. . . our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema. Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.
I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?
My diary entries allow me to keep track of all the things I would like to change about my life.