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Jan 26, 2021 · Joan Didion: Why I Write. "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means." By Joan Didion. January 26, 2021. Of course I stole the title for this talk from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write.
Dec 5, 1976 · Joan Didion is the author of two novels, “Run River” and “Play It as It Lays,” and a book of essays, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” Her new novel, “A Book of Common Prayer,” will ...
Dec 23, 2021 · Didion’s work may be easy to romanticize—I read her speech turned essay “Why I Write” when I was young, and her account of the world as a series of pictures that “shimmer around the edges”...
Sep 26, 2023 · Joan Didion looks straight at the camera, with her fist curled in front of her mouth—as if to indicate it is through her hands that the taciturn thinker speaks. Appropriately, a manual typewriter takes up half the frame in this iconic black-and-white photo taken by Nancy Ellison in 1976.
Dec 23, 2021 · “Why I Write” was adapted from a lecture Didion gave at the University of California at Berkeley. In the 1976 essay, she explained, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I...
Jun 12, 2024 · I was not “worried about my writing,” I was “worried about my brain,” for instance. When I told Joan that a character named Billy Silvers had taken over one of my books, she said, unimpressed, “Well take it back.”.
Why I Write. By Joan Didion Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this:
