Inspirational Quotes by Joan Didion

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

— Joan Didion

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

— Joan Didion

Writers are only rarely likable.

— Joan Didion

Marriage is memory, marriage is time.

— Joan Didion

We all have the same dreams.

— Joan Didion

You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

— Joan Didion

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

— Joan Didion

It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.

— Joan Didion

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

— Joan Didion

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at…

— Joan Didion

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired…

— Joan Didion