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Down Quotes by Joan Didion
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
- Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't know what I think until I write it down.
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
- What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by…
- Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you…
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in…
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- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods… — Rowan Atkinson
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe