I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11…– Joan Didion
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
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
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
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.
I’ve never been keen on open adoption. It doesn’t seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions – leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and
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,
You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you’re writing, and if it doesn’t seem to be getting across to
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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