Diaries Quotes - Page 17

• I feel like - and maybe you're going to think I'm crazy for saying this - 'Vampire Diaries' has crazy fans, 'Pretty Little Liars' has crazy fans, but I swear to you, I have never met crazier fans than 'One Tree Hill"s.

  Torrey DeVitto

  Crazy, Liars, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hands, Vampire, Trying

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, People, Busy

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• Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Reading, Listening

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• You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.

  David McCullough

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  War, Reading, Flow

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.111, Northwestern University Press

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• when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

  Janet Frame

  Giving, What If, Records

  Janet Frame, Carole Ferrier (1995). “The Janet Frame reader”, Womens Pr Ltd

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• If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Want, Blogs

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• Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals

  Frank Smith

  Writing, Reality, Order

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• "War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

  James Ellroy

  War, Writing, Fate

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Morning, Jealous, Writing

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• I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

  Mark Alan Stamaty

  Writing, Eighteen

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Phones, People, Records

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The main idea of it was to multiply everything, to have a bigger sound and grow venue size and grow fan base. As for a lyrical theme of the album [named "X"], it's just diary entries; it's just kind of like three years of my life in songs.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Years, Ideas

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  A. N. Wilson

  Liars, Believe, Angel

  A. N. Wilson (1990). “Incline Our Hearts”, Penguin Group USA

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• [John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities, especially in his diary, which is one of the greatest and most readable in all of American literature.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Heart, Ambition, Insecurity

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

  Lily Allen

  Opinionated, Persons, Written

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• [Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

  Gordon S. Wood

  America, Done, May

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them.I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve." He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Thinking, Saint

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Interesting, Goes On, Said

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

  Wade Bowen

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• I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.

  Leo Szilard

  Thinking, Facts, Doe

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• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Order

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• I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

  Torrey DeVitto

  Liars, Kids, Reality

  "How Torrey DeVitto Stabilized Her 'Crazy' Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. March 15, 2013.

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• And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.

  Tom Cole

  Real, Believe, Soul

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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