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

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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

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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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Fear
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To have that sense of ones intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. – Joan Didion

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Self Respect
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Theres a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. – Maureen OHara

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I find the business world hard. – Haile Gebrselassie

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. – Virginia Woolf

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