Joan Didion's Quotes

Joan Didion's Quotes 26

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -...

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks...

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me...

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon...

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source...

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is...

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that...

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves -...

Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I...

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business an occasion of daily dread for...

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