Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that.

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Fear

Joan Didion | fear

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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Dreams

Joan Didion | dreams

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

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business

Joan Didion | business

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.

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On Self-Respect

Quote from Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

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Post date April 29, 2022
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Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

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