Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary

A journal is an artificially permanent record of thought and inner life, which are invariably transient — something the most prolific diarist in modern literary history articulated herself in her elegant defense of the fluid self. We are creatures of remarkable moodiness and mental turbulence, and what we think we believe at any given moment — thos... See more

“ You want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you,”

Madeleine L’Engle counseled in her

advice to aspiring writers

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