Ideas I want to write about
Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people kno... See more
Joan Didion • Why I Write - The New York Times
JOAN DIDION WHY I WRITE NYT
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Rooney feels that people can interpret her work as a reflection on “how hard it is to say what we mean”, but that wasn’t her intention. She wants to raise the thought: how hard it is to mean anything, and to know what you yourself actually mean.
“I want to write about how language doesn’t seem to be a good way of conveying meaning, and how sometime
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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