Joan Didion
American Essayist
Lived from: 1934 - 2021
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 5 december 1934 Died: 23 december 2021
Quotes 21 till 40 of 68.
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I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?
Play it as it Lays (1970) 14― Joan Didion -
I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.
Faceboek (2011)― Joan Didion -
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
Blue Nights (2012) 24― Joan Didion -
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Faceboek (2011)― Joan Didion -
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
A Book of Common Prayer (1977)― Joan Didion -
In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.
The White Album (1979) 89― Joan Didion -
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
Faceboek (2011)― Joan Didion -
Information is control.
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It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 161― Joan Didion -
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4― Joan Didion -
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
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Marriage is memory, marriage is time.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 197― Joan Didion -
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
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Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
Faceboek (2016)― Joan Didion -
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.
(2006)― Joan Didion -
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
(2006)― Joan Didion -
Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 24― Joan Didion -
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013)― Joan Didion
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