Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."
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Journal
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Kenneth Williams
Actor
"Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness."
Thomas Merton
Writer, Monk
"My best writing has always been in journals."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)"
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"I love playing. The keyboard is my journal."
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"Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal."
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"My journal is my life's companion."
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"My diary seems to keep me whole."
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"First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read."
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"I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks."
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"In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival."
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