Quotes by Didion, Joan

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-res >>

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

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but o >>

Quotations about Hollywood

It feels like a barbell. [When asked what she thought of her newly >>

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there a >>

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for w >>

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.

Didion, Joan