Best Joan Didion Quotations
- Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes… Course
- Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. All
- Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. Changes
- We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. All
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what… Entirely
- One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't… Crazy
- I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. Anybody
- Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. Been
- The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. Always Tricking
- A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically… Belongs
- Memories are what you no longer want to remember. Inspirational
- My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. Fantasies
- 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 through it. Feel
- Writers are always selling somebody out. Always Selling
- I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. Directly
- I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. Inspirational
- I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. Control
- Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff. Afternoon
- You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but… Change
- Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind… Analysis
- I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned… Abandoned
- When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is… Deceiving
- Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… Ability
- My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget… Advantage
- Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first… Been
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