Joan Didion
Biography
Quotes
- Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
- 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.
- Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
