--- title: "26 Way Quotes By Joan Didion" description: "26 Way quotes by Joan Didion. Plus more from Joan Didion and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/joan-didion-497_ifs_if-you-want-to-understand-what-you-re-th_1291159.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 don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-don-t-really-get-things-very-intuitively-i-mean-i-don-t-immediately/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32c/joan-didion-497_down_i-don-t-really-get-things-very-intuitive_2602331.jpg) > [The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-apparent-ease-of-california-life-is-an-illusion-and-those-who-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db8/joan-didion-497_apparent_the-apparent-ease-of-california-life-is_481767.jpg) > [Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/writing-is-the-act-of-saying-i-of-imposing-oneself-upon-other-people/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/joan-didion-497_changing-your-mind_writing-is-the-act-of-saying-i-of-imposi_3066014.jpg) > [I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-wanted-to-be-an-oceanographer-actually-it-s-a-way-of-going/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f4/joan-didion-497_knows_i-wanted-to-be-an-oceanographer-actually_2208420.jpg) > [I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-closed-the-box-and-put-it-in-a-closet-there-is-no-real-way-to-deal/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/joan-didion-497_boxes_i-closed-the-box-and-put-it-in-a-closet_3207152.jpg) > [The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-apparent-ease-of-california-life-is-an-illusion-and-those-who/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/joan-didion-497_believe_the-apparent-ease-of-california-life-is_236917.jpg) > [I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-did-consider-marriage-and-motherhood-extreme-and-doomed-commitments/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/joan-didion-497_commitment_i-did-consider-marriage-and-motherhood-e_1541799.jpg) > [The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-future-always-looks-good-in-the-golden-land-because-no-one/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f3/joan-didion-497_california_the-future-always-looks-good-in-the-gold_187925.jpg) > [Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/writing-is-always-a-way-for-me-of-coming-to-some-sort-of/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/joan-didion-497_blue_writing-is-always-a-way-for-me-of-coming_2115567.jpg) > [The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-impulse-to-write-things-down-is-a-peculiarly-compulsive-one-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/joan-didion-497_impulse_the-impulse-to-write-things-down-is-a-pe_1126431.jpg) > [I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-was-in-love-with-new-york-i-do-not-mean-love-in-any-colloquial-way/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00c/joan-didion-497_cities_i-was-in-love-with-new-york-i-do-not-mea_239765.jpg) > [As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/as-a-writer-even-as-a-child-long-before-what-i-wrote-began-to-be/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d2/joan-didion-497_children_as-a-writer-even-as-a-child-long-before_394925.jpg) > [Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/writing-fiction-is-for-me-a-fraught-business-an-occasion-of-daily/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/joan-didion-497_books_writing-fiction-is-for-me-a-fraught-busi_553552.jpg) > [My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/joan-didion-497_breathed_my-mother-gave-teas-the-way-other-mother_19100.jpg) > [The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-impulse-to-write-things-down-is-a-peculiarly-compulsive-one-3/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b4/joan-didion-497_compulsion_the-impulse-to-write-things-down-is-a-pe_2020229.jpg) > [The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/the-freeway-experience-is-the-only-secular-communion-los-angeles-has/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/joan-didion-497_clean_the-freeway-experience-is-the-only-secul_1865892.jpg) > [Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/actually-when-john-died-for-the-first-time-i-thought-for-the-first/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/79d/joan-didion-497_alive_actually-when-john-died-for-the-first-ti_398068.jpg) > [We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/we-were-that-generation-called-silent-but-we-were-silent-neither-as/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/joan-didion-497_action_we-were-that-generation-called-silent-bu_2640040.jpg) > [...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/quite-simply-i-was-in-love-with-new-york-i-do-not-mean-love-in-any/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f86/joan-didion-497_cities_quite-simply-i-was-in-love-with-new-york_657007.jpg) > [When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/when-i-began-writing-these-pages-i-believed-their-subject-to-be/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab8/joan-didion-497_acquaintance_when-i-began-writing-these-pages-i-belie_2657686.jpg) > [I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/i-never-had-much-interest-in-being-a-child-as-a-way-of-being-it/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e9/joan-didion-497_being_i-never-had-much-interest-in-being-a-chi_2808874.jpg) > [All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/all-of-these-things-we-do-without-children-and-suddenly-we-don-t-do/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/joan-didion-497_anymore_all-of-these-things-we-do-without-childr_128743.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) > [In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/in-many-ways-writing-is-the-act-of-saying-i-of-imposing-oneself-upon/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/joan-didion-497_act_in-many-ways-writing-is-the-act-of-sayin_3087610.jpg) > [Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/making-judgments-on-films-is-in-many-ways-so-peculiarly-vaporous-an/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/joan-didion-497_cinema_making-judgments-on-films-is-in-many-way_1601326.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/joan-didion/#itemlist", "name": "26 Way Quotes By Joan Didion", "numberOfItems": 26, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. 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