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Joan Didion Quotes

American - Author | December 5, 1934 -

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Life Dinner You Life Changes Down

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Life Responsibility Self-Respect Own

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Sky Doing Late Brilliant West Coast

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Grief People Crazy Think Thinking

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

Swimming Pool Never Always Wanted

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

Power Play Know Grammar Piano Ear

A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways - those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California.

People Leaving California Everything

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Strength Sure Physical Strength Novel

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Worth Price Self-Respect Question

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

Broken Lost Want Wasted Got Longer

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Water People Control Important True

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.

Fear Looking Thinking Find Want See

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