Joan DidionA collection of 8 posts

Strength

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

Strength

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't fee...

Power

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Power

To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves –...

Movie

Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot...

Fear

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at w...

Dreams

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Business

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business an occasion of daily dread for at ...