100 Day Project - Day Twelve

My journal and I hung out for quite a while today. While I was compulsively scribbling my scribblings, I was reminded of this little quartet of thoughts by writers on the subject of journal keeping, stored in another of my journals*, which I went and dug out. I think these sum up the need to journal for me:

“Superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts - like a confidante who is deaf, dumb and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself. The journal is a vehicle for my sense of selfhood. It represents me as emotionally and spiritually independent. Therefore (alas) it does not simply record my actual, daily life but rather - in many cases - offers an alternative to it.” - Susan Sontag

“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” - Isaac Asimov

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” – Flannery O’Connor

“Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did.” - Barbara Sher


*because, of course, everyone has multiple journals on the go at once. Right? Or is that just me?!