“The diary reveals all of her feelings that she doesn't want anyone to see.”

“They said they had been able to place appointments in his diary for their clients, with the help of his constituency secretary who had also worked for Beattie.”

“The diarist John Evelyn describes Bacon at ease in his garden accompanied by a servant with inkhorn and quill to record his thoughts.”

“So, much as I relish the phrase, I don't think I really qualify as a particularly diligent diarist.”

“As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment.”

“One final matter is worth mentioning, and this is the acid comments about folklore and folklorists in Alice's diaries.”

“In this study, memoirs and diaries, account books and statistics are used to forge an image of the life that went on in these houses.”

“From warblogs to personal diaries, genre comes out of story, out of content, and is not imposed upon it by form or format.”