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Put Quotes by Joan Didion
- It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag.
- 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…
- 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…
- I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
- 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…
- 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…
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