In this 1970 interview at her beachfront LA home, Joan Didion calls writing “the only way I’ve found I can be aggressive… I am totally in control of this tiny, tiny world.”
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is one of the biggest inspirations for me as a writer. She talks about how when she writes she
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Love this woman. And she has a new memoir coming out next fall. Yes.
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coveting her 1970s life - that view, that patio, those sunglasses! - so hard right now.
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I’m comfortable performing,...a way. I mean, I’m comfortable doing something.
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