Joan Didion
Joan Didion
Joan Didionis 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, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work...
bad deceiving heard hysteria imperative join moral morality necessity ourselves pragmatic start thinking whine
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
except hardly thank
There's hardly anything I can say about this except thank you,
generosity needs messages
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.
locked-doors lost stills
The fear is for what is still to be lost.
complaining more-time alone-time
Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
grieving missing world
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.
ifs-and you-like-it pleasure
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
typewriters tiny world
I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.
vacuums reader ifs
If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.
underwater way wanted
I wanted to be an oceanographer, actually. It's a way of going underwater. I've always been interested in how deep it was, you know.
tuesday september-11 united-states
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States.
adults ethics
I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.
narrative lines thin-air
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
iowa land california
Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.