“Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time. For forty years I saw myself through John’s eyes.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I could make promises to myself and to other people and there would be all the time in the world to keep… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's easier for me to write than talk... to express the state I'm in at any time. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“We all know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a time when we must relinquish the dead, let them… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going… — 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
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Flying to Monterey I had a sharp apprehension of the many times before when I had, like Lincoln Steffens, "come back," flown… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“For forty years I saw myself through John's eyes. I did not age. This year for the first time since I was… — 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
