Joan Didion Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.”

“I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.”

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”

“I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.”

“The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.”

“We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.”