“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
JD
“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.”
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.”
Joan Didion
“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are”
Joan Didion
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
Joan Didion
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”
Joan Didion