Meghan Daum Quotes

I've always been steady on and off keeping diaries and journals. I try to document everything so I can remember it the older I get.

I don't keep a journal.

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

The writing process is more... it becomes a case of more like a diary for me. I mean, I write stuff down all day whenever I'm experiencing something that I think would be important for me to look at later on. You know, whether it be for writing lyrics or just for a memory, like, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't believe I was feeling that way at that time'.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

I think a lot about my obsessive need to document things and what it's going to mean in the future.

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

I think I got an Instamatic camera when I was 8 years old, and ever since then, I've liked to record things. I don't know why. Maybe it's just to kind of try to leave some kind of record behind.

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

I've always kept a notebook in my pocket, I've always written stuff down since I was a kid.

Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But that makes me a little uneasy.

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the Doors that I used as a reference for the book for some details there, and then I was glad I had that, but that was it.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.