To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a

Image, To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one

—Joan Didion

You might also like.

Image, …quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not

Image, When you’re writing fiction, you don’t have notes necessarily. You don’t carve

Image, The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Image, That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not

Image, The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher

Image, We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or

Image, Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended

Image, I’ve come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss,

Image, New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential

Image, I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I

Image, I’ve always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are.

Image, There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Image, Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Image, We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never

Image, A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol

Image, Anything worth having has its price.

Image, I … have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along

Image, I work every day. Sometimes I don’t accomplish anything every day, but

Image, A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest

Image, Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power

Image, What I want to tell you today is not to move into

Image, I have never started a novel – I mean except the first,

Image, We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as

Image, New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic

Image, Writers are only rarely likable.

Image, There’s a general impulse to distract the grieving person – as if you could.

Image, I can’t imagine writing if I didn’t have a reader. Any more

Image, Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.

Image, I don’t know what I think until I write it down.

Image, I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him