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 backbookconstantly Change image and share on social
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. Joan Didion controltinytotally Change image and share on social
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. Joan Didion answercallfaith Change image and share on social
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. Joan Didion afraiddielong Change image and share on social
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. Joan Didion americanantitheticalbook share on social
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. Joan Didion flawlessgreathotel Change image and share on social
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 crazygriefmake Change image and share on social
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true. Joan Didion collegedeeplyirritate Change image and share on social