Best Joan Didion Sayings
- What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness… Alone
- To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose… Bowl
- Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of… Abruptly
- We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… Action
- I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe. Inspirational
- I lead a very conventional life. Conventional
- I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. Child
- I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. Become Unhinged
- I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. Afraid
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed… Answer
- Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. Aim
- I have not been the witness I wanted to be. Been
- Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty,… Feel
- Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been like this all… All
- I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. Dead
- Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back. Hand
- There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia. Been
- The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Accept
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. Ethics
- Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Changes
- Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? Dream
- Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price. Anything Worth
- Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the… Appeared
- You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. Commitment
- I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Irritation
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