On journal writing

“As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined” James W. Pennebaker

“I don’t want to live in a hand-me-down world of others’ experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me” Helen Keller

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write” William M. Thackeray

“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter. And lead pencil markings endure longer than memory” Jack London

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open” Natalie Goldberg

“I haven’t written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It’s an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I—nor for that matter anyone else—will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart” Anne Frank