Joan Didion Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.”

“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.”

“Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”

“Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.”

“The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.”

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

“It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.”

“It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.”

“Call me the author.”

“I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.”