I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
Joan DidionI can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
Joan DidionWe were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
Joan Didion