Top 106 Quotes by Joan Didion

About Joan Didion

These are some quotes by American author Joan Didion Author, who was born on December 5, 1934.

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

Joan Didion

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Joan Didion

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

Joan Didion

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Joan Didion

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Joan Didion

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.

Joan Didion

Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.

Joan Didion

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Joan Didion

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Joan Didion

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

Joan Didion

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