A Common Place Diary

A Common place Diary is a record of things, we have heard and want to remember:
a proverb, a remark by a writer of unusual sensibility, a witty or wise saying,
or even silly or foolish or crass.

Simply Copying well-expressed sentence is one way of Learning to write.

In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say

By - Thomas S. Kane excerpts from The New Oxford Guide to Writing