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