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He said that what’s wonderful about poetry is that it tells you things that you’ve already known.

Didion has defined a writer as “a person whose most absorbed and passion ate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. I write entirely to find out what’s on my mind, what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I’m seeing and what it means, what I want and what I’m afraid of.” She has also said that “all writing is an attempt to find out... See more

It’s not brave, because I couldn’t stop if I wanted to. It’s all I know how to do. I’ll go on making things and cooking and offering them and wanting to be close to people because I could no more stop than I could stop eating. I have never not been hungry.

Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat

If that sounds awkward – and inefficient – it was all part of the plan: they were discovering what could work, even in such adverse conditions, and cutting no corners.

He knew very early on that I really love stillness, that I like to let the scene happen and walk away from a camera.

The opposite of an unfolding is a vision. A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into another context your problems will go away.