Let Me Tell You What I Mean
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
— Joan Didion
Joan Didion said, “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.”)
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work a... See more
Joan Didion • Joan Didion's 'lost' commencement address, revealed
That’s what a journal asks of a writer. Show me yourself.