Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

- Ellen Gilchrist

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

- Jessica Simpson

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

- Jean Cocteau

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

- Jay Leno

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

- J. K. Rowling

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

- Heather O'Reilly

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

- Harvey Pekar

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

- George Fetherling

I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance.

- Gretchen Rubin

I started writing and photographing for different publications and finally ended up being the correspondent in South Asia, for the Geneva-based Journal de Geneve, which at one time used to be one of the best international newspapers in Europe.

- Francois Gautier

After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.

- Ann Leckie

I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

- Dan Deacon

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

- Dan Jenkins

I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don't really so much sit down and write songs - I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.

- Courtney Barnett

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

- Chris Robinson

I don't keep a journal.

- Chris Evans

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

- Anatoly Rybakov

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.

- Ariel Gore

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

- Arthur Wellesley

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

- Ada Yonath