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Write Quotes by Joan Didion
- 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…
- Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
- It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with…
- I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
- The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
- Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed…
- 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…
- 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…
- We write to discover what we think.
- 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…
- Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed.…
- 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…
- 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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- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood