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Way Quotes by Joan Didion
- Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."
- I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the…
- We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
- I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
- 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…
- When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the…
- As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident…
- The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
- 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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