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I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.