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American
-
Author
Born:
December 5
, 1934
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
Power
,
Play
,
Know
,
Grammar
,
Piano
,
Ear
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion
Research
,
Writing
,
You
,
Down
,
Matter
,
Go
Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.
Joan Didion
Sky
,
Doing
,
Late
,
Brilliant
,
West
,
Stuff
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
Joan Didion
Broken
,
Lost
,
Want
,
Wasted
,
Got
,
Longer
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
Joan Didion
Great
,
Service
,
Ideas
,
Mirrors
,
Always
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Thought
,
Never Forget
,
Forget
,
Never
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
Joan Didion
People
,
Me
,
Never
,
California
,
Talk
,
Who
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
,
Thinking
,
Looking
,
Find
,
Want
,
See
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
Joan Didion
Strength
,
Physical
,
Sure
,
Novel
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
Joan Didion
Memories
,
You
,
Remember
,
Want
,
Longer
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.
Joan Didion
Thinking
,
Moral
,
Start
,
Want
,
Something
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Joan Didion
Life
,
Dinner
,
You
,
Down
,
Know
,
Fast
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
Life
,
Responsibility
,
Self-Respect
,
Own
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
Self-Respect
,
Price
,
Worth
,
Question
I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
Joan Didion
Swimming
,
Pool
,
Never
,
Always
,
Wanted
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Joan Didion
Water
,
People
,
Control
,
True
,
Important
One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
Joan Didion
Grief
,
People
,
Crazy
,
Thinking
,
Think
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
Joan Didion
Decision
,
You
,
Right
,
Anything
,
Sure
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
Joan Didion
Life
,
Live
,
Believe
,
Illusion
,
Way
,
Real
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Joan Didion
Great
,
Power
,
Respect
,
Free
,
Back
,
Give
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
Joan Didion
You
,
Down
,
Go
,
Texture
,
Like
,
Original
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
Joan Didion
Life
,
Life Changes
,
Ordinary
,
Changes
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Joan Didion
Good
,
Believe
,
Ethical
,
Greater Good
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Joan Didion
Live
,
Experience
,
Ideas
,
Line
,
Narrative
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
Joan Didion
Walk
,
You
,
Places
,
Away
,
Pick
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.
Joan Didion
People
,
Leaving
,
California
,
Up
,
Got
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