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Keeping a diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
-Anais Nin
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Keeping A Diary All My Life Helped

Anais Nin
Keeping a diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
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I'm so old that when i started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and i think that's one the reasons that i've never written about sex. because early on you had to worry that someone was going to find your diary, so it's bad enough to be writing like joan didion, but writing like joan didion about sex acts you'd performed with somebody you had known for 20 minutes, that's a bit worse. so i would write in my diary, "i met j. and we had sex five times last night." but i would never write about what we did.
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Don't tell girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't. it's like saying, 'hey, when you get in the shower, i'm not gonna read your diary.' 'wait--are you gonna read my diary?' 'no! i said i'm not gonna read your diary. go take a shower!'
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than basic for that purpose. that language was joss, which predated basic and was beautiful. but basic happened to be on a ge timesharing system that was done by dartmouth, and when ge decided to franchise that, it started spreading basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Acting helped me as i was growing up. it helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. so i'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. it's a luxury.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
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I started typing diary in, i don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. because with the computer if you were writing and you realized you had three sentences in a row that started with the word "he," you could fix that right up, whereas on a typewriter you'd think, "well, i'm not going to change the whole page. it's my diary." so that made a difference.
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