“The most widely read book is the one you write for yourself.”
Penny Plotline
Who was Penny Plotline?
Penny Plotline (1898–1980) was a reclusive British diarist, bath-based philosopher, and self-appointed editor of her own thoughts. Best known for her twelve-volume autobiography Me, Myself and Marginalia, Plotline wrote daily reflections, marginal scribbles, and occasional rebuttals to her own opinions—sometimes within the same sentence.
A fierce believer in self-authorship, Penny argued that the truest stories are the ones we craft for our own eyes. “Journals are maps of the soul,” she once wrote on the back of a utility bill.
This quote is believed to have been penned during a quiet afternoon in 1936, after she returned a library book late and decided she’d rather just write her own.
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