Joan Didion
American Essayist
Lived from: 1934 - 2021
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 5 december 1934 Died: 23 december 2021
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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
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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.
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
The White Album (1979)― Joan Didion -
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
Faceboek (2013)― Joan Didion -
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.
(2017)― Joan Didion -
Writers are always selling somebody out.
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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
(2006)― Joan Didion -
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
― Joan Didion
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