Joan Didion

“I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.”

“Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my roo...”

“Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.”

“Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is alway...”