I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. Joan Didion Read Quote
My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular. Joan Didion Read Quote
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. Joan Didion Read Quote
I’m totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. Joan Didion Read Quote
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 audience once, you can’t imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence. Joan Didion Read Quote