Joan Didion

Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer renowned as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist.

Sourced

• Writers are always selling somebody out.
  • "A Preface", in Slouching Toward Bethlehem

• Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
  • "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Toward Bethlehem

• The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
  • "On Self-Respect", in Slouching Toward Bethlehem

• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
  • From the novel Run, River

• One thing you will note about shopping-center theory is that you could have thought of it yourself, and a course in it will go a long way toward dispelling the notion that business proceeds from mysteries too recondite for you and me.
  • "On the Mall", in The White Album

• We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
  • "The White Album", in The White Album

External links

• 2005 audio interview of Joan Didion by Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio - RealAudio
• 1987 audio interview of Joan Didion by Don Swaim
• CBC: Didion wins U.S. National Book Award
• The New York Review of Books: Joan Didion
• The Paris Review Interview with Joan Didion, 2006
• The Paris Review Interview with Joan Didion, 1978
• Joan-Didion.info: Joan Didion Fan Site