يجب على الإنسان أن يضع نفسه في مركز العالم .

Carelessness is the step to being limitless.

Despite all she has achieved, she’s as enthusiastic as ever.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It&#39;s more personal in that it&#39;s more direct, and actually it&#39;s always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

Was there ever in anyone&#39;s life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I&#39;ve never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn&#39;t put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

Joan Didion

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