Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because… — 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
prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a… — 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
![“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind…” quote by Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d9/joan-didion-497_block_i-didn-t-like-it-computer-when-i-first-b_1018860.jpg)
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