Book Quote by Joan Didion Download Open image “It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.” — Joan Didion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Dark Difficult Hard Safe Writing
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image