I saw Roland Barthes’s ‘Mourning Diary’ at a bookshop, and I felt it was like I was destined to see the book. I read it all in one go while I was in the shop. The book was mind-blowing. – Go Ah-sung
I sketch while I’m on set, and it’s a way for me to record all of the locations I’ve been to. I don’t keep a diary but a sketchbook. – Jessalyn Gilsig
Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series and Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ books got 49,323,701 kids reading. – Jon Scieszka
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. – Jo Brand
I’m never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary – I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It’s crammed Post-its. – Aerin Lauder
I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president. – Billy Graham
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity. – Beatrice Webb
When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common. – Claire Tomalin
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. – Edvard Munch
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections. – John Hanning Speke
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need. – Robert Musil
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. – Walter Scott
