Joan Didion
Joan Didion
Joan Didionis an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. A sense of anxiety or dread permeates much of her work...
easy ends harder
It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
easy ends harder
It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
literature information working-it
Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.
information
Information is control.
decision right-decision ifs
You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.
moving
When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.
voice serious poetic
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
done want way
In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.
dog men vanity
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.
people evil lays
What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.
girl pain age
Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.
talking people twelve
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.