"Was it only by dreaming or writing that……" — Joan Didion

"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

— 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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Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream… — Neil Armstrong
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have… — Richard Bach
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the… — Gaston Bachelard

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