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Back Quotes by Joan Didion
- The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you…
- My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and…
- When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I…
- 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,…
- Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
- 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…
- I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
- To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the…
- Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back…
- Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
- In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it…
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