#own

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ↗

— Joan Didion

#life #own #responsibility #self-respect #source

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. ↗

— Joan Didion

#dinner #down #ends #fast #instant

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

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. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#alive #artists #duty #era #hand

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#down #i #million #movies #turned

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#how #i #known #much #packing

Downloading songs is not good. ↗

— Obie Trice

#good #songs