Quote #10

Writers are always selling somebody out.

More from Joan Didion

  1. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
  2. Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choic…
  3. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
  4. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
  5. Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
  6. In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
  7. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
  8. Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

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