Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
On The Whole, I Don't Want To Think Too Much About Why I Write What I Write. If I Know What I'm Doing ... I Can't Do It.
-Joan Didion
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
On The Whole, I Don't Want To
Joan Didion
On The Whole, I Don't Want To Think Too Much About Why I Write What I Write. If I Know What I'm Doing ... I Can't Do It.
Views: 15
Topic
Writing
Thinking
Want
More From Joan Didion
Before I'd Written Movies, I Never Could Do Big Set-piece Scenes With A Lot Of Different Speakers - When You've Got Twelve People Around A Dinner Table Talking At Cross Purposes. I Had Always Been Impressed By Other People's Ability To Do That.
Talking
People
Twelve
I've Come To A Much More Controlled Idea About Death And Loss, But I Don't Think It's Possible To Come To That Much More Controlled Idea Until You've Gone Through The Crazy Part . . . I Don't Mean That I'm Controlled. I Mean That I Gave Up The Idea That I Had Control. That's The New Control.
Crazy
Mean
Loss
Novels Are Like Paintings, Specifically Watercolors. Every Stroke You Put Down You Have To Go With. Of Course You Can Rewrite, But The Original Strokes Are Still There In The Texture Of The Thing.
Texture
Painting
Novel
Short Stories Demand A Certain Awareness Of One's Own Intentions, A Certain Narrowing Of The Focus.
Writing
Focus
Stories
Mourning Has Its Place But Also Its Limits.
Mourning
Limits
Trending Author
Antonio Porchia
Daniel Silva
David Copperfield
Marian McPartland
Tucker Carlson
Carol Burnett
Category
Information