Quotes by : Joan Didion

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I....

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

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell....

And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter....

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer....

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately....

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of....

As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside rather....

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks....

I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window.....