Joan Didion
by Nicola · 8 things on Twos
- Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook
- Live in the World
- “It takes an act of will to live in the world… By living in the world, I mean really trying to see it, look at it, trying to make connections. And that’s not easy, it takes work. You have to keep stripping yourself down, examining everything you see, getting rid of whatever is blinding you…throw yourself into the convulsion of the world.” Joan Didion, in Evelyn McDonnell's The World According to Joan Didion
- “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.” Joan Didion, Why I Write
- I can’t remember when I first came across Joan Didion. I was late to the party. It might even have been after she died. Whenever it was, since then I’ve read her writing and watched ‘The Center Will Not Hold’.
This is a wonderful article about the auction of some of Joan’s possessions, their context with a bit of her life story woven in:
- Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
- Bill Nighy
- Self-respect - Joan Didion