Joan Didion
“Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind.”
“You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”
“I don’t know what I think until I write it.”
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
“Writers are always selling somebody out.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant.”
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”