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Joan Didion Quotes: "The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.



Joan Didion Quotes: "To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self."

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.




Joan Didion Quotes: "We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not."

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.



Joan Didion Quotes: "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."

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.




Joan Didion Quotes: "Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember."

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.



Joan Didion Quotes: "We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.



Joan Didion Quotes: "The fear is for what is still to be lost."

The fear is for what is still to be lost.




Joan Didion Quotes: "Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus."

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.



Joan Didion Quotes: "That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing."

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.



Joan Didion Quotes: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.




Joan Didion Quotes: "It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive."

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Grammar is a piano I play by ear."

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write."

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.



Joan Didion Quotes: "My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point."

My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Writers are always selling somebody out."

Writers are always selling somebody out.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing."

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.



Joan Didion Quotes: "We all survive more than we think we can."

We all survive more than we think we can.



Joan Didion Quotes: "A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty."

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.



Joan Didion Quotes: "To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.



Joan Didion Quotes: "[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before."

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.



Joan Didion Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed."

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Anything worth having has its price."

Anything worth having has its price.



Joan Didion Quotes: "The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.



Joan Didion Quotes: "In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do."

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.



Joan Didion Quotes: "I don't know what I think until I write it down."

I don't know what I think until I write it down.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff."

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?



Joan Didion Quotes: "Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it."

Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.



Joan Didion Quotes: "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image."

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.



Joan Didion Quotes: "The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?



Joan Didion Quotes: "I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be"

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be



Joan Didion Quotes: "The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities."

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.



Joan Didion Quotes: "The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried."

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Time is the school in which we learn."

Time is the school in which we learn.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."

Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.



Joan Didion Quotes: "When the ground starts moving, all bets are off."

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel."

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.



Joan Didion Quotes: "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."

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.



Joan Didion Quotes: "Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere"

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere



Joan Didion Quotes: "In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices."

In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.