Joan Didion Quotes - Page 8

• If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

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  Vacuums, Reader, Ifs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

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  Dream, Listening, Reader

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• It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

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  Ifs And, You Like It, Pleasure

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.

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  Writing, Color, Water

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

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  Children, Writing, Wish

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 10, 2012

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• What does it cost to lose those weeks, that light, the very nights in the year preferred over all others? Can you evade the dying of the brightness? Or do you evade only its warning? Where are you left if you miss the message the blue nights bring?

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  Night, Light, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.107, Knopf

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• I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.

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  Writing, Typewriters, Use

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• If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

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  Eye, People, Different

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

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  Marine, Sea, Unseen

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.

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  Block, Writing, Knowing

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• I learned early to keep death in my line of sight, keep it under surveillance, keep it on cleared ground and away from any brush where it might coil unnoticed.

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  Death, Sight, Lines

  Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.121, Vintage

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• La fantasía de que la vida extraterrestre es, por definición, de un orden superior al nuestro es algo que tranquiliza a todos los niños, y a muchos escritores.

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  Children, Order, Definitions

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 28, 2011

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• We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.

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  Suicide, Multiple Choice, Choices

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.5, Zola Books

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• Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

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  Grief, Interesting, Sanity

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• The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

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  Significado, Pensamiento, Práctica

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

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• It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

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  Spring, America, People

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 21, 2015

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• For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

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  Records, Common, Common Denominator

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day. I can't do it late in the afternoon because I'm too close to it. Also, the drink helps. It removes me from the pages.

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  Needs, Done, Afternoon

  "Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71". Interview with Linda Kuehl, www.theparisreview.org. 1978.

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• Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

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  Pieces, Firsts, Nonfiction

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• The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

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  Past, Land, Looks

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.14, Zola Books

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• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

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  Events, Matter, Aging

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.134, Vintage

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• Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.

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  Tuesday, September 11, United States

  Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.

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  Writing, Afterlife, White

  Joan Didion (2007). “The Year of Magical Thinking”, p.156, Vintage

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

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  Mirrors, Ideas, Flawless

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.91, Zola Books

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• If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

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  Self, Hands, Play

  "On Self-Respect". Vogue Magazine, www.vogue.com. 1961.

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