"I always say, keep a diary and..." - Quote by Mae West
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
More by Mae West
“I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.”
“I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.”
“He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
More on Writing
“Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.”
“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”
“The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.”
More on Memory
“I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.”
“My favorite songs are my favorite songs because they just feel like a certain moment, or a certain photo, just a snapshot for whatever three or four minutes the song is.”
“I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.”