Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
Weitere Zitate von Joan Didion
Zum Autor"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
"I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness."
"[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."
"Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them."
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle."