Joan Didion

Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot…

I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I…

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there…

I’m not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel…

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought…

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its…

Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you…

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at…