--- title: "12 York Quotes By Joan Didion" description: "12 York quotes by Joan Didion. Plus more from Joan Didion and more York sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fe/joan-didion-497_cities_new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead_2167139.jpg" --- > [New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead-an-infinitely-romantic-notion/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fe/joan-didion-497_cities_new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead_2167139.jpg) > [New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead-an-infinitely-romantic/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b19/joan-didion-497_city_new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead_2377606.jpg) > [It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/it-is-hard-for-people-who-have-not-lived-in-los-angeles-to-realize/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d77/joan-didion-497_edges_it-is-hard-for-people-who-have-not-lived_284653.jpg) > [New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead-an-infinitely-romantic-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/joan-didion-497_cities_new-york-was-no-mere-city-it-was-instead_2696922.jpg) > [It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/it-is-often-said-that-new-york-is-a-city-for-only-the-very-rich-and/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/joan-didion-497_cities_it-is-often-said-that-new-york-is-a-city_1995541.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) > [New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/new-york-is-full-of-people-with-a-feeling-for-the-tangential/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/joan-didion-497_adventure_new-york-is-full-of-people-with-a-feelin_1730859.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) > [“Discussion of how California has 'changed,' then, tends locally to define the more ideal California as that which existed at whatever past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/discussion-of-how-california-has-changed-then-tends-locally-to-define/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/108/joan-didion-497_fifteen-years_discussion-of-how-california-has-changed_3158098.jpg) > [“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/los-angeles-weather-is-the-weather-of-catastrophe-of-apocalypse-and/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85a/joan-didion-497_los-angeles_los-angeles-weather-is-the-weather-of-ca_109359.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) > [“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-didion/it-is-hard-for-people-who-have-not-lived-in-los-angeles-to-realize-2/) [Joan Didion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-didion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6b/joan-didion-497_los-angeles_it-is-hard-for-people-who-have-not-lived_1689803.jpg) ## Other authors on York ## 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/york/joan-didion/#itemlist", "name": "12 York Quotes By Joan Didion", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "New York was no mere city. 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I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. 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