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Out Quotes by Joan Didion
- People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers…
- Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind…
- If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
- 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…
- Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
- 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…
- Writers are always selling somebody out.
- I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but…
- 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…
- I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking…
- When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and…
- In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box…
- It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was…
- That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
- I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at. What I see and what I fear.
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