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I never think people are too careful with me.
— Joan Didion
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.
— Joan Didion
Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.
— Joan Didion
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
— Joan Didion
Style is character.
— Joan Didion
Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.
— Joan Didion
Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.
— Joan Didion
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places.
— Joan Didion
Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice
— Joan Didion
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselvesthere lies the great, singular power of self-respect. — Joan Didion
Writers are only rarely likable.
— Joan Didion
These people who have lost someone look naked because they think themselves invisible.
— Joan Didion
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
— Joan Didion
They mentioned everything but one thing: that she had left the point in a bedroom in Encino.
— Joan Didion
Call me the author.
— Joan Didion
We all remember what we need to remember.
— Joan Didion
1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States ...
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There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
— Joan Didion
I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
— Joan Didion
The bereaved must be urged to "sit in a sunny room," preferably one with an open fire.
— Joan Didion
You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.
— Joan Didion
We all have the same dreams.
— Joan Didion
I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.
— Joan Didion
I write to know what I think.
— Joan Didion
Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.
— Joan Didion
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
— Joan Didion
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
— Joan Didion
Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.
— Joan Didion
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.
— Joan Didion
California: The west coast of Iowa.
— Joan Didion
I did not always think he was right nor did he always think I was right but we were each the person the other trusted.
— Joan Didion
I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.
— Joan Didion
If the dead were truly to come back, what would they come back knowing? Could we face them? We who allowed them to die?
— Joan Didion
Someday it all comes.
— Joan Didion
Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.
— Joan Didion
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
— Joan Didion
The way you got sideswiped was by going back. I
— Joan Didion
I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.
— Joan Didion
Grammar is a piano I play by ear.
— Joan Didion
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
— Joan Didion
Information is control.
— Joan Didion
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
— Joan Didion
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
— Joan Didion
When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.
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I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.
— Joan Didion
I had believed in the logic of popular songs. I had looked for the silver lining. I had walked on through the storm.
— Joan Didion
The past could be jettisoned ... but seeds got carried.
— Joan Didion
I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
— Joan Didion
Memories are what you no longer want to remember.
— Joan Didion
I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.
— Joan Didion