Quotes By Author: Joan Didion

“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.”

“Happiness is,’ after all, a consumption ethic.”

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.”

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”