Quote by Joan Didion
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily

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

Other quotes by Joan Didion

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

Category:
Envy / Jealousy
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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

Category:
Water
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Other Quotes from
Business
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A lot of people say Id miss show business if I quit. Id miss some of it. Now its the only life I know. – Loretta Lynn

Category:
Business

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. – David Brainerd

Category:
Business

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think theyve got that great business idea. – Mark Burnett

Category:
Business

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Business

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat. – Robert Frost

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Poetry

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
good

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Category:
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We made the buttons on the screen look so good youll want to lick them. – Steve Jobs

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good