writing

"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

"Writers are always selling somebody out". 

• Joan Didion

“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely

“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King