"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter……" — Joan Didion
"Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing."
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204 Quotes by Joan Didion
Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site.
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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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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my…
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I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon…
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really…
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely…
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to…
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished…
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
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