Journal Quotes - Page 18

• Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

  Christina Baldwin

  Teacher, Writing, Diaries

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.18, M. Evans

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• I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

  Duff McKagan

  Crazy, Writing, Littles

  FaceBook post by Duff McKagan from Jul 30, 2015

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• Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dust, Doe, Slavery

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.233, Graphic Arts Books

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• The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.

  Andrew Revkin

  Pain, Animal, Technology

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• A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you can get your hands on so you can become familiar with different forms of writing: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, journalism. That's very important. And also keep a journal. Not so much, because it's good writing practice. Although it is, but more because it's a wonderful source of story starters.

  Ann M. Martin

  Couple, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Moving, Land, Mind

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I could write all songs all day long about what I think about the music industry or music in general. Sometimes I gotta be like, "Let's write about something else." You don't want to say the same thing over and over again. In a lot of ways, I look at records as a year or two of my life encapsulated in songs. They're almost like journal entries.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Tom Gabel of Against Me!". Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. July 24, 2007.

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• Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.

  Hal Elrod

  Powerful, Writing, Practice

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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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• I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Writing, Lame, Fonts

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

  Abdellah Taia

  Dream, School, Writing

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience.

  Cris Mazza

  Real, Reading, Writing

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

  Catherine Camus

  Men, Resistance, Existentialist

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!

  Robert Masello

  Writing, Games, Waiting

  Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.12, Writer's Digest Books

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• My journal is my life's companion.

  Christina Baldwin

  Companion, Journaling

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• Don’t just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don’t just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don’t just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream.                 Claim your promise.                                   Spell your miracle.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Writing

  Mark Batterson (2016). “The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears”, p.15, Zondervan

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• My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

  Grace Paley

  Writing, Vocabulary, Useless

  Grace Paley (2014). “Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories”, p.85, Macmillan

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• I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It is a state in which you are in an overheated fervor of production - of mental production - where you're analyzing everything that happened. And what they said! And how they looked! Did that touch mean something, or not? Everything is sort of endowed with meaning, but you're also hopelessly boring and out of the world.

  Todd Haynes

  Fall, Mean, Analysis

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

  Morris Kline

  Practice, Should Have, Paper

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• Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

  Michele Cassou

  Writing, Done, Sake

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

  Lemn Sissay

  Thinking, Two, People

  "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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• Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Depth, Analysis

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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