We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing … - Joan Didion

" "
We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.

Joan Didion

This quote has a book source. Sign up to see titles and page references

English

Collect this quote

About Joan Didion

Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer known as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Joan Didion Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Joan Didion:

Margaret Atwood Louise Erdrich Isabel Allende Joyce Carol Oates Richard Ford

Additional quotes by Joan Didion

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what “nothing” means, and keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.

I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters

We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known wh… - Joan Didion

About Joan Didion

Go Premium

Additional quotes by Joan Didion

Limited Time Offer