Joan Didion writes : “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” “We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience”

guardian Wednesday, May 5, 2021 8:51:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion claims : “no ground is solid, no depth of field reliable”

newstatesman Monday, February 15, 2021 12:04:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion recalls : “trying to interpret the words in some less final way”

nytimes Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:42:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “in a pleasing shade of green,”

nytimes Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:42:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

msn-uk Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:36:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

tribtown Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:22:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

therepublic Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:04:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : "I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South"

startribune Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:00:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

TorontoStar Tuesday, July 7, 2020 5:52:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : "It is easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends,"

newsday-USA Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:02:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “It is easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends,”

news-yahoo Monday, April 27, 2020 8:15:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “A good deal about California does not, on its own terms, add up,”

thedailybeast Sunday, April 19, 2020 1:14:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “A character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life and is the source from which self-respect springs,” “Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth”

forbes Friday, March 27, 2020 2:28:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension,”

newrepublic Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:25:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion written : “A pool is water made available and useful,”

bostonglobe Thursday, July 25, 2019 10:39:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion told : “I found [the book] amazingly easy to write,”

seattletimes Thursday, July 11, 2019 4:16:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion told : “It’s just one woman on a stage,”

seattletimes Thursday, July 11, 2019 4:16:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion is real live here in only the most temporary way,”

thetimes Monday, June 10, 2019 2:36:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “Terror is the given of the place,”

nytimes Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:18:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “Or was the business with the license just one more case of ‘the apparent inadequacy of the precipitating event?’”

nation-ke Saturday, March 9, 2019 12:17:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image,”

bostonglobe Thursday, December 20, 2018 3:07:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote ( about Mr Woodward ) : “the story told by a criminal or civil informant is understood to be coloured by self-interest, the informant knows that his or her testimony will be unrespected, even reviled, subjected to rigorous examination and often rejection,” “The informant who talks to Mr Woodward, on the other hand, knows that his or her testimony will be not only respected but burnished into the inside story”

prospectmagazine Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:24:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “Many people I know in Los Angeles,”

thegazette Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:28:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion writes : "We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not,"

sltrib Saturday, June 25, 2016 1:35:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” “We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience”

guardian Wednesday, May 5, 2021 8:51:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion claims : “no ground is solid, no depth of field reliable”

newstatesman Monday, February 15, 2021 12:04:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion recalls : “trying to interpret the words in some less final way”

nytimes Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:42:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “in a pleasing shade of green,”

nytimes Tuesday, January 26, 2021 10:42:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

msn-uk Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:36:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

tribtown Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:22:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

therepublic Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:04:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : "I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South"

startribune Tuesday, July 7, 2020 6:00:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West and the South”

TorontoStar Tuesday, July 7, 2020 5:52:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : "It is easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends,"

newsday-USA Tuesday, April 28, 2020 12:02:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “It is easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends,”

news-yahoo Monday, April 27, 2020 8:15:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “A good deal about California does not, on its own terms, add up,”

thedailybeast Sunday, April 19, 2020 1:14:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “A character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life and is the source from which self-respect springs,” “Self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth”

forbes Friday, March 27, 2020 2:28:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension,”

newrepublic Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:25:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion written : “A pool is water made available and useful,”

bostonglobe Thursday, July 25, 2019 10:39:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion told : “I found [the book] amazingly easy to write,”

seattletimes Thursday, July 11, 2019 4:16:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion told : “It’s just one woman on a stage,”

seattletimes Thursday, July 11, 2019 4:16:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion is real live here in only the most temporary way,”

thetimes Monday, June 10, 2019 2:36:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “Terror is the given of the place,”

nytimes Thursday, March 21, 2019 9:18:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion writes : “Or was the business with the license just one more case of ‘the apparent inadequacy of the precipitating event?’”

nation-ke Saturday, March 9, 2019 12:17:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image,”

bostonglobe Thursday, December 20, 2018 3:07:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion wrote ( about Mr Woodward ) : “the story told by a criminal or civil informant is understood to be coloured by self-interest, the informant knows that his or her testimony will be unrespected, even reviled, subjected to rigorous examination and often rejection,” “The informant who talks to Mr Woodward, on the other hand, knows that his or her testimony will be not only respected but burnished into the inside story”

prospectmagazine Sunday, December 9, 2018 6:24:00 PM EAT

Joan Didion wrote : “Many people I know in Los Angeles,”

thegazette Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:28:00 AM EAT

Joan Didion writes : "We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not,"

sltrib Saturday, June 25, 2016 1:35:00 AM EAT