Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. -
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power. -
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. -
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
More quotes by Joan Didion
- Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
- Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
- 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.
- 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.
- To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.