Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
Joan DidionWhat's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
Joan DidionIt's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.
Joan DidionI didnโt like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where itโs helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. Youโve got research, youโve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape
Joan Didion