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.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

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

Call me the author.

Call me the author.

Joan Didion

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

Joan Didion

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

Joan Didion

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.

Joan Didion

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

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

Joan Didion

I am always writing to myself.

I am always writing to myself.

Joan Didion

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

Joan Didion

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.

Joan Didion

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