"The writer is always tricking the reader into……" — Joan Didion
"The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream."
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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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