#si

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#desire #fact #in fact #product #said

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#counter #courts #decisions #form #law

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#behind #certain #certain point #did #glad

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#basically #demographic #enjoy #find #forces

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

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#except #first #i #just #makes

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#aim #always #course #how #i

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