Joan Didion Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

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Joan Didion quotes and sayings page 8 (89 year old author). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 106 we have for her.

Joan Didion Quotes
“I am always writing to myself.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“Nothing is critic-proof.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.”
Joan Didion Quotes
“I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.”
“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.”

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