This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — 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
