What did Joan Didion mean by: Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. - Joan Didion Writer · USA Copy
+ There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they’re evading writing. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Writing, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ any compulsion tries to justify itself. Feraz Zeid, June 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Joan Didion, Compulsion, Inexplicable, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Feraz Zeid, October 28, 2023December 26, 2023, Joan Didion, Stories, Writing, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ What you’re normally doing as a writer is trying to find the narrative. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Narrative, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Dinner, End, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Die, 0 - Joan Didion Writer · USA
+ Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joan Didion, Hard, 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
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
