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Tristine Rainer

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Biographies & Memoirs, Women & Gender Studies

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Anais Nin

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Tristine Rainer, Ph.D, is a pioneer in the fields of contemporary journal writing and narrative autobiography. Her book The New Diary, how to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity has sold over 200,000 copies and has been used as a text in university Psychology and Occupational Therapy courses, although her degree was in English Lit. After a quarter of a century in print The New Diary will see a new, revised edition in 2004. Her book Your Life as Story, Writing the New Autobiography, published in 1997 hit the Los Angeles Times bestseller list and is presently being used as a text in many college writing programs.

Rainer is the founder and director of the Center for Autobiographic Studies, a non-profit educational organizati ...more

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	The New Diary: How to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity 4.14 avg rating — 566 ratings — published 1978 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Life as Story: Discovering the "new Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature 4.10 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anaïs Nin 3.91 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity 4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tagebuch schreiben. Mit einem Vorwort von Anaïs Nin by Tristine Rainer (Goodreads Author), Kerstin Winter (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Tristine Rainer - Your Life as Story (1.6.2002) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Your Life as Story by Tristine Rainer (1997-04-14) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You can even invoke dreams, nourish them, and regulate their quantity. For example, to stimulate dreaming, before you go to sleep tell yourself: “I want to remember my dreams,” or address the dream directly, “Dreaming Self, send me a dream,” or use whatever phrase feels comfortable to you. If you invoke dreams for three nights in a row, generally you will recall a dream by the fourth night. I repeat my phrase three times just to make”
― Tristine Rainer, The New Diary: How to Use a Journal for Self-Guidance and Expanded Creativity

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“The term "finding your voice" suggests it has been lost. And I suppose for many educated people it has been. They have learned to write the King's English, but since they aren't the king, it's a kind of ventriloquism.”
― Tristine Rainer, Your Life As Story By Rainer Tristine

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