Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I recognize a lot of the things I'm going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

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In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out. ↗

— Joan Didion

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