Diary Reading Quotes

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.

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

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

Diaries tell their little tales with a directness, a candor, conscious or unconscious, a closeness of outlook, which gratifies our sense of security. Reading them is like gazing through a small clear pane of glass. We may not see far and wide, but we see very distinctly that which comes within our field of vision.

Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.