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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.

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

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

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

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.

I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

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

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.