Joan Didion Quotes & Sayings
106 most famous Joan Didion quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 90 year old American author born on Dec 5, 1934.
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
“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.”
“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
“Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.”
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”
“You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.”
“Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.”
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