What did Joan Didion mean by: Burroughs’s voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. - Joan Didion Writer · USA Copy
+ I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Grammar, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, End, Innocence, Likes, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Couple, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ It’s hard to find a book that’s safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Book, Dark, Writing, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Fiction, Nonfiction, Voice, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Book, Rooms, Sleep, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from. Feraz Zeid, July 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Commitment, Powerful Women, Walks, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Land, Past, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man! - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
I never wear very serious suits. I don’t have to because I don’t go to an office, so it’s fine. - Jean Pigozzi Businessman
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task. - Jeff VanderMeer Author · USA
Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice. - Jehan Sadat
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words. - Jennifer Donnelly Author