Quote by Joan Didion
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I th

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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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. – Joan Didion

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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers. – Joan Didion

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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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