--- title: "26 Want Quotes By Joan Didion" description: "26 Want quotes by Joan Didion. Plus more from Joan Didion and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/joan-didion-497_longer_memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to_508849.jpg" --- > [Memories are what you no longer want to remember.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to-remember/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/joan-didion-497_longer_memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to_508849.jpg) > [You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/you-have-to-make-sure-you-have-the-characters-you-want-that-s-really/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/joan-didion-497_character_you-have-to-make-sure-you-have-the-chara_573256.jpg) > [I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-no-longer-want-reminders-of-what-was-what-got-broken-what-got-lost/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89d/joan-didion-497_broken_i-no-longer-want-reminders-of-what-was-w_18620.jpg) > [If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/if-you-want-to-understand-what-you-re-thinking-you-kind-of-have-to/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/joan-didion-497_ifs_if-you-want-to-understand-what-you-re-th_1291159.jpg) > [I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-myself-love-to-read-those-victorian-novels-which-go-on-and-on-and/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/joan-didion-497_books_i-myself-love-to-read-those-victorian-no_360078.jpg) > [We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/we-imagined-we-knew-everything-the-other-thought-even-when-we-did-not/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11a/joan-didion-497_facts_we-imagined-we-knew-everything-the-other_2401660.jpg) > [I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-always-want-everything-read-in-one-sitting-if-they-can-t-read-it-in/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b16/joan-didion-497_ifs_i-always-want-everything-read-in-one-sit_2070938.jpg) > [When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/when-we-start-deceiving-ourselves-into-thinking-not-that-we-want/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fb/joan-didion-497_deceiving_when-we-start-deceiving-ourselves-into-t_1801489.jpg) > [On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/on-the-whole-i-don-t-want-to-think-too-much-about-why-i-write-what-i/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/joan-didion-497_i-can_on-the-whole-i-don-t-want-to-think-too-m_3134320.jpg) > [In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/in-terms-of-work-i-never-felt-that-i-ve-done-it-right-i-always-want/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c01/joan-didion-497_different_in-terms-of-work-i-never-felt-that-i-ve_2494749.jpg) > [Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/quite-often-you-want-to-tell-somebody-your-dream-your-nightmare-well/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/joan-didion-497_always_quite-often-you-want-to-tell-somebody-yo_2540599.jpg) > [ I didn’t like it \[computer\] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-didn-t-like-it-computer-when-i-first-began-using-it-where-it-s/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/joan-didion-497_block_i-didn-t-like-it-computer-when-i-first-b_1018860.jpg) > [Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/above-all-she-is-the-girl-who-feels-things-who-has-hung-on-to-the/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/798/joan-didion-497_adolescence_above-all-she-is-the-girl-who-feels-thin_85271.jpg) > [Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/sometimes-i-ll-be-fifty-sixty-pages-into-something-and-i-ll-still-be/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fca/joan-didion-497_book_sometimes-i-ll-be-fifty-sixty-pages-into_1945924.jpg) > [The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-arrangement-of-the-words-matters-and-the-arrangement-you-want-can/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b06/joan-didion-497_active_the-arrangement-of-the-words-matters-and_987322.jpg) > [Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/had-my-credentials-been-in-order-i-would-never-have-become-a-writer/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d05/joan-didion-497_access_had-my-credentials-been-in-order-i-would_1888929.jpg) > [I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-wrote-stories-from-the-time-i-was-a-little-girl-but-i-didn-t-want-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a7/joan-didion-497_actress_i-wrote-stories-from-the-time-i-was-a-li_1622092.jpg) > [I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-start-a-book-and-i-want-to-make-it-perfect-want-it-to-turn-every/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/joan-didion-497_blown_i-start-a-book-and-i-want-to-make-it-per_848829.jpg) > [What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/what-i-want-to-tell-you-today-is-not-to-move-into-that-world-where/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/joan-didion-497_believe_what-i-want-to-tell-you-today-is-not-to_909456.jpg) > [I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-start-a-book-and-i-want-to-make-it-perfect-want-it-to-turn-every-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c5/joan-didion-497_accommodations_i-start-a-book-and-i-want-to-make-it-per_1485394.jpg) > [In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/in-fact-i-no-longer-value-this-kind-of-memento-i-no-longer-want/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/joan-didion-497_broken_in-fact-i-no-longer-value-this-kind-of-m_494388.jpg) > [You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/you-have-your-wonderful-memories-people-said-later-as-if-memories/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/joan-didion-497_cards_you-have-your-wonderful-memories-people_3104825.jpg) > [prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/prepare-a-little-hot-tea-or-broth-and-it-should-be-brought-to-them/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11a/joan-didion-497_care_prepare-a-little-hot-tea-or-broth-and-it_624160.jpg) > [It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/it-is-impossible-to-think-of-howard-hughes-without-seeing-the/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/joan-didion-497_admire_it-is-impossible-to-think-of-howard-hugh_655461.jpg) > [As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/as-it-happened-i-didn-t-grow-up-to-be-the-kind-of-woman-who-is-the/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5c/joan-didion-497_be-the-kind-of-woman_as-it-happened-i-didn-t-grow-up-to-be-th_1306565.jpg) > [The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-secret-point-of-money-and-power-in-america-is-neither-the-things-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccc/joan-didion-497_able_the-secret-point-of-money-and-power-in-a_1530146.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Joan Didion > [To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/to-shift-the-structure-of-a-sentence-alters-the-meaning-of-that/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-work-every-day-sometimes-i-don-t-accomplish-anything-every-day-but/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [Style is character.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/style-is-character/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/california-is-a-place-in-which-a-boom-mentality-and-a-sense-of/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-went-because-i-was-interested-in-the-alchemy-of-issues/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/why-did-i-write-it-down-in-order-to-remember-of-course-but-exactly/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-no-longer-want-reminders-of-what-was-what-got-broken-what-got-lost/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/my-mother-gave-teas-the-way-other-mothers-breathed-her-own-mother/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-m-not-very-interested-in-people-i-recognize-it-in-myself-there-is-a/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/was-there-ever-in-anyone-s-life-span-a-point-free-in-time-devoid-of/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/research-to-date-has-shown-that-like-many-other-stressors-grief/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/by-the-end-of-the-week-she-was-thinking-constantly-about-where-her/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [“I just can't see the upside in this," I heard myself say by way of explanation. Later he said that if John had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-just-can-t-see-the-upside-in-this-i-heard-myself-say-by-way-of/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [ I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. \[...\] I think biographies are very urgent… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-read-so-ravenously-that-i-would-read-through-whole-categories-i-was/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) > [To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/to-those-of-us-who-remained-committed-mainly-to-the-exploration-of/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/joan-didion/#itemlist", "name": "26 Want Quotes By Joan Didion", "numberOfItems": 26, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Memories are what you no longer want to remember.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Joan Didion" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to-remember/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/joan-didion-497_longer_memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to_508849.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/joan-didion-497_longer_memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to_508849.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/541/joan-didion-497_longer_memories-are-what-you-no-longer-want-to_508849.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Memories are what you no longer want to remember.” — Joan Didion", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You have to make sure you have the characters you want. 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