Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I learned to find equal meaning in the repeated rituals of domestic life. Setting the table. Lighting the candles. Building the fire.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I offer you a second way of approaching the moment where everything in your life just stops, this one from the actor… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“...some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — 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
