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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

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. – 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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Im not just a doormat. Im not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, its about trying to find some strength through that. – Lucinda Williams

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. – Henry Ward Beecher

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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. – Lillian Hellman

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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey

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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. – Montgomery Clift

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