"I am always writing to myself." — Joan Didion

"I am always writing to myself."

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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More Always Writing Quotes

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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs. — Jeff Bridges
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,… — Katherine Mansfield
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I… — Jamaica Kincaid
I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear… — Michael Jackson
Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in… — Tim McGraw
I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so… — Lucinda Williams
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a… — Dorianne Laux
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create. — Patricia Cornwell
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a… — Jess Walter
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. — Kris Allen
I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. — Rick Wakeman

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