Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“[from "On Keeping a Notebook"]: It is a good idea to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them… — joan didion Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
![“[from "On Keeping a Notebook"]: It is a good idea to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about…I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not…Remember what it was to be me…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a90/joan-didion-497_business_from-on-keeping-a-notebook-it-is-a-good_1707023.jpg)
