Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos,...
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control. Joan Didion
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child. Joan Didion
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line. Joan Didion
You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Joan Didion
To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. Joan Didion
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
We all survive more than we think we can. Joan Didion
We all survive more than we think we can.
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
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.
I never think people are too careful with me. Joan Didion
I never think people are too careful with me.
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
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.
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever. Joan Didion
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's. Joan Didion
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.