I don’t lead a writer’s life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. Joan Didion Read Quote
The truth is, it’s easier for me to write than talk… to express the state I’m in at any time. Joan Didion Read Quote
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. Joan Didion Read Quote
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. Joan Didion Read Quote
When I’m working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. Joan Didion Read Quote
Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won’t go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. Joan Didion Read Quote
