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Danh ngôn của Joan Didion (Sứ mệnh: 5)

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.
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.