Best Joan Didion Words
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all… All
- Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one… All
- I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval… Across
- It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that… Came
- The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. Always Looks
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Live
- ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… Across
- Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Delusion
- I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or… Advised
- That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… All
- What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask. Ask
- But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… Asked
- Time is the school in which we learn. Funny
- prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care… All
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… Actual
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also… Alive
- Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… Accepting
- People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in… Abstract
- Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control. Control
- I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,… Accessible
- The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. Carried
- I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to… All
- California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled… Beneath
- One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means,… Carter
- Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a… Anyone
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