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
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Joan Didion
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Joan Didion
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. Joan Didion
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't. Joan Didion
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
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. Joan Didion
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. Joan Didion
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. Joan Didion
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