3 December 2020 Joan Didion 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
3 December 2020 Joan Didion 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.
3 December 2020 Joan Didion Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you have it at the time you’re going through it.
