Journal Quotes

• The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

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• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Stories, Body

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• The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Writing, Air

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

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• Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptable for one's private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb, and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. ... The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.

  Susan Sontag

  Independent, Dumb, Secret

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Way, Changing Your Life, Imagine

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• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

  Lord Byron

  Writing, Mad, Mind

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.32, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

  Michael Pollan

  Cells, Medicine, Peers

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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

  William Boyd

  Self, Individual, Form

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Needs, Want

  Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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• Who or what inspires you?" "I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.

  Eoin Colfer

  Inspire, Articles, My Own

  Eoin Colfer (2004). “Artemis Fowl Files, The (Sp 04 edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Schizophrenia, Form

  Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.

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• After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Reading, Long

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Harcourt

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• I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Diaries, Kind

  "The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1915-1919".

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• Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Ideas, Information

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2014

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• Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Ocean, Writing, Mean

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

  John Ziman

  Book, Research, Physics

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• There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Library, Furniture

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2016

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• My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kindness, Blessed, Done

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• Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Meditation, Mind

  "Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

  Paul Auster

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy, Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Real, Writing, Memorial

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• The main thing to do at the end of the day is to write in a gratitude journal all the things that you are grateful for that happened that day. You will invite even more abundance into your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Grateful, Writing

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Self Harm, Artist

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