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Joan Didion
Joan Didion
American Author
Born: Dec 5, 1934
Always Life Me People Think You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness. Joan Didion
Book Clouds Amazing Sense Incredible Book Tour Francisco Flying Immediately Minute Following Above Wednesday Tour Lifted Lightness Days Because Felt Got Leave Due Amazing Thing Been Very Did Just After San San Francisco Plane Planes Many Thing
Call me the author. Joan Didion
Me Call Author
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
Power Difficult Guilty Possessions Perceive About Because Materialistic Truly Versed Uneasy American Which Themselves Uses Europeans
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
Somebody Out Writers Always Selling
Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. Joan Didion
You Will Reading Think Aim About Read Course Always How Sitting
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out. Joan Didion
Fire Big Out Clean Bothered Never Had Put Town Box Left Manuscripts Season
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. Joan Didion
Good People Parents Think Ought Good Parent Parent Feels Like Anybody Again
I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. Joan Didion
Thought Rat Out Generally Am Pack Turns
I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. Joan Didion
Had Longer Been Die Afraid Now Ever
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. Joan Didion
You People Dinner Big Before Other Dinner Table Ability Table Cross Scenes Purposes Could Never Had Written Talking Around Always Got Been Lot Impressed Different Movies Speakers Twelve
Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up. Joan Didion
Myself Try First Other Once Would Write Failed Freeze Pieces Reader Always Up Than While Started
Nothing is critic-proof. Joan Didion
Nothing
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Joan Didion
Life People Some People Think Some Writer Lead Source Suspicion Irritation
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
Become Lose Recognize Kind Temper Through Hysterical Like Lot Going Things
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. Joan Didion
Way Seemed Never Had Failed Child Being Flat Interest Much Engage
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. Joan Didion
Strength Physical Physical Strength Sure Undertake Novel
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces. Joan Didion
Me First Direct More Pieces Always Nonfiction Doing Been Personal Even Actually Started
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. Joan Didion
Book Hate World Made Every Ten Perfect Color Point Make Limited Discouraging Very Blown Want Turn Pages Less Start
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it. Joan Didion
You World Drive Some Entirely Drive-In Takes Know Although Always Doing Personal Place While Even Novel Larger
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down. Joan Didion
Writing Down Way Immediately Intuitively Only Understand Very Get Mean Really Things
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another. Joan Didion
Own See About Terms California Another Encouraged Children Preferred Themselves Much Connected
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black. Joan Didion
Me Strong Black Clothes Rose Muted Eccentric Seems Had Retrospect Child Dusty Greens Element Chosen Amount
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Joan Didion
You Focus Throw Overheard Line Novel
I never think people are too careful with me. Joan Didion
Me People Think Too Never Careful
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act. Joan Didion
Saying Me Change People Writing Mind Aggressive Other Way Ways See Oneself Hostile Imposing Listen Act Your Many Even
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class. Joan Didion
Broken You Class Woman Every States Those Someone Percent Only Potentially Beat Also Make Understand Does Oppressed Revolutionary Eggs Either Which Them Population United United States Need
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