The Diary Review

‘The evening sunlight fading to make the colours hum more and more melodiously was a pleasure to us all. Greta did not seem to notice the ma...

‘I fall into bed exhausted. I dream that Jeanne Moreau wants to come out of the painting too, but for some reason I can’t do it for her. I k...

‘Today is my birthday and it’s the first one I ever spent on a train. Arrived Chicago at 1pm. Had a three-hour layover then caught the 4pm t...

‘Lennie came over & I drank some lighter fuel - got frantic & burst into tears - walk in the park & bed at 5AM.’ This is a verba...

‘The pages are a challenge, and though often people think that writing a diary is unhealthy - as it certainly can be, when it confirms a ten...

‘I felt more powerfully than ever today what poems people are; not the part of them that speaks, but the mysterious, intricate network of th...

The great Italian film director, Federico Fellini, died 30 years ago today. He won four Oscars for best foreign language film, more than any...

‘For a fortnight JH and I have been trimming the fat from this volume, fat being the truth that endangers. The book still seems bloated, for...

‘I walkd by my self after tea finished the French Novel _ then Mr Inchbald and I walkd, he was dull and after we came home we had Words.’ Th...

‘I think some critics are uncomfortable with me because they have never been able to put me into a nice little slot. They haven’t been able ...