When your diary is full and your life is empty, get a date

When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it’s tragic I threw them out,...

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

…then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

I’ve found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It’s possible to make a connection with any kind of writing – as long as the writing is good.

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel…

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us...

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

If you read someone else’s diary, you get what you deserve.

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a...

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of…

And Meredith and Bonnie, who’s going to bend some spoons for us next. I’m going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

Very touching,” said a voice from the stairway. “Do you want me to imitate a violin?” – Damon

It’s not wrong to hustle hustlers. It’s like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore