Quote by Joan Didion
Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. - J

Im not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. – Joan Didion

Other quotes by Joan Didion

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

Category:
movies
Read Quote

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

Category:
Property
Read Quote

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. – Joan Didion

Category:
Self-Respect
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
strength
category

You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other persons strength. – Charlotte Bronte

Category:
strength

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. – Jean Paul

Category:
strength

My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength. – Anthony Anderson

Category:
strength

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Category:
strength

Random Quotes

Another thing thats quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what youve written the next morning and you think you didnt get it quite right, you can fix it. – Adam Clymer

Category:
Morning

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. – Proverb

Category:
Advice

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Inner Child

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana

Category:
Happiness