Why writers should keep a diary

Maria Popova writes that keeping a personal journal "is a practice that teaches us better than any other the elusive art of solitude — how to be present with our own selves, bear witness to our experience, and fully inhabit our inner lives." She adds quotes from Thoreau, Emerson, Susan Sontag, and others, including this from Virginia Woolf: "The habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles."

November 16, 2014

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