Joan Didion

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. ↗

— Joan Didion

#inspirational #talent #truth #writing #inspirational

Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice ↗

— Joan Didion

#love

Writers are always selling somebody out. ↗

— Joan Didion

#out #selling #somebody #writers

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dream #into #listening #reader #their

My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #like #more #my own #own

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i do #order #sense #strong #strong sense

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. ↗

— Joan Didion

#pick #places #walk #you