Quotes by : Joan Didion

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

their suburbia house in Brentwood" was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old....

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them....

It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has....

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did.....

We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed,....

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially....

The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things....

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is....

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.