You never know when you might need it. I couldn’t have written my books unless I had written it down at that moment, no matter how mundane the event appeared at the time. After all, emotions move at their own pace.

“See enough. and write it down, i tell myself. And then some morning, when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I’m going through the motions of doing what i am supposed to do, which is write. On that bankrupt morning, I will simply open my notebook and there it will all be, a forgotten account with accumulated interest. Paid passage back to the world out there. It all come back. Remember what it is to be me. That is always the point.” - Joan didion.