More From Joan Didion
- "Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up."
- "Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that."
- "You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that."
More In Strength
- "Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don’t know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they’re not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom."― Joe Lieberman
- "One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."― W. E. B. Du Bois
- "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse."― Oliver Goldsmith