I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Create free wallpaper (Make a wallpaper or screensaver out of this quote with your image)

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train. - Walter Dean Myers

---

Related Authors
Edmund Wilson | Amy Poehler | Amy Tan | Frederick Buechner | Alice Munro | Alphonse de Lamartine | Alice Munro | Demosthenes |

Related Quotes

Na see finish dey turn good morning to howfa.

Pidgin Sayings

Na See Good Morning

---

The character of the owners determines the destiny of the asset.

Michael J. Saylor

Asset Destiny Owners

---

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Mencius

Life Friends Dreams Memories

---

Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

Daisaku Ikeda

Dreams Embrace Advance You

---

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Denzel Washington

Life Risks Foward Success

---

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

Aleister Crowley

Understand English One thing Englishman Who talk

---

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Eckhart Tolle

Disturb Exactly Power Small

---

Forgive and hold no grudges.

Omoni Oboli

Forgive Hold Grudges

---

All genuine education comes about through experience.

John Dewey

Genuine Education Experience

---

Small circle, less pressure

Chef 187

Small circle Less Pressure

---

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Wallace Stevens

World Course Itself Most

---

When legislature is corrupted, the people are undone.

John Adams

Legislature Corrupted People Undone

---

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train. - John Adams quotes