Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan DidionOnce in a while there were things in screenwriting that taught me things for fiction. But there's nothing in screenwriting that teaches you anything for the theater. I'm not sure I've ever fully appreciated before how different a form theater is.
Joan DidionWe live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
Joan DidionCalifornia is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.
Joan Didion