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If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

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

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

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

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

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.

I'm perfectly honest, I've never seen Twilight, I've never seen The Vampire Diaries, and I've never seen True Blood, or anything like that.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you were speaking from the diary. I had mistaken it for love.

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.

It doesn’t feel natural for me to write some diary type song. I want to write a classic like Yesterday but weird songs about meatballs in refrigerators come into my head – I can’t help it.

I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

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

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

I will write myself into well-being.