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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 was overcast and smelled like the ocean and eucalyptus.

These were processes of becoming accountable to our desires, if only the desire to live.

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choices are like a mini-death, where we lose a possibility of what our lives and work might become.

But what we discovered by honing in clearly on what he genuinely wanted was that what he was (unconsciously) seeking was simply showing up with greater devotion to what already existed in his life.