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,...
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.
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true. Joan Didion
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
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.
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me. Joan Didion
I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. Joan Didion
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul. Joan Didion
I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
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.
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another. Joan Didion
Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. Joan Didion
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.
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.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends. Joan Didion
When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.
