Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I tried to fortify myself with the best nonfiction and fiction I could lay my hands on, from the essays of James… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves… — Brian Hall Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights,… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about.… — Lily Koppel Copy Share Image
No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,'… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
This involves more than I can discuss here, but do it. Read the writers of great prose dialogue-people like Robert Stone and… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“His expression I remember from the first time I met him. Open, direct. But no longer anonymous. I know certain telling details… — Judi Hendricks Copy Share Image
I'm so old that when I started keeping a diary they were in actual books, and I think that's one the reasons… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I've been watching a lot of Joan Didion interviews on YouTube. I love her. My drummer has gotten me into looking at… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
For so long, I felt like a walking open wound everywhere I went. There's this Joan Didion quote about being afflicted from… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept… — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Books I like: John McPhee's 'Coming Into the Country,' Michael Herr's 'Dispatches about the Vietnam War,' and Evan S. Connell's 'Son of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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