Famous Joan Didion Quotes

  • Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. – Joan Didion

    Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.– Joan Didion

  • …the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult. – Joan Didion

    …the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.– Joan Didion

  • I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. – Joan Didion

    I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.– Joan Didion

  • The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language. – Joan Didion

    The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language.– Joan Didion

  • Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel – Joan Didion

    Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel– Joan Didion

  • I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come. – Joan Didion

    I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.– Joan Didion

  • There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. – Joan Didion

    There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.– Joan Didion

  • She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card. – Joan Didion

    She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.– Joan Didion

  • It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. – Joan Didion

    It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.– Joan Didion

  • It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.– Joan Didion