Virginia Woolf 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 —... See more
Maria Popova • Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
the importance of journal keeping as a powerful tool for creative expression and self-healing, and a way to help solidify thoughts in both one’s personal and literary life.
Phillip Lopate • Writers and Their Notebooks
