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Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes wi

Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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