On Writing ~

"Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness;  and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it."
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) American activist

"People who keep journals live life twice.  Having written something down gives you the opportunity to go back to it over and over, to remember and relive the experience."
~ Jessamyn West (1907-1984) American writer

"We are drawn toward journals out of a craving for the authentic, for the uncensored word and thought."
~ Mark Rudman, b. 1948, American writer

"Writing is a form of therapy, sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation."
~Graham Greene,  (1904-1991) British writer

"One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world."

~ Wm. Hazlitt (177-1830) English writer