Joan Didion Quotes

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

ConfidenceMomentTalentWritingYou

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

John Eaton

ThinkTroubleFollowAudiencePlot

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

Andrew Dominik

SayingYouPersonAustraliaWaySee

I love the idea of the Great Wall of Trump.

Ann Coulter

LoveGreatWallGreat WallIdea

President Obama has asked me to chair his new President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

MeChairNewPresidentHisJobs

Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

Michael Greger

BodySmokeMoreAbilitySystem

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

John Updike

ArtUniverseAlwaysSomethingSeems

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing fiction.

Amitava Kumar

NatureWritingThinkPresentYou

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

Sugata Mitra

KnowledgeBrainFinancialPolitical

When I studied at Juilliard, I did a lot of pushups and became this diesel machine. I was really big and was like, 'This is not a good look for an ingenue.'

Rutina Wesley

GoodLookBigLikeMachineDiesel

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Michael Reagan

CelebrationAdoptionTreated

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

Luke Hemsworth

ChangeSomeoneYouGoKnowMeet

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

Liv Warfield

MusicI AmMeThinkYouKnow

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Joan Didion