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About Joan Didion
American writer and journalist
Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is known as one of the figures associated with New Journalism. Her work is linked with the movement that brought literary techniques into reporting, alongside writers such as Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. Her writing is often remembered for that journalistic style and for the influence she had on modern nonfiction.
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Fear: more sayings
- “I would love to slap you right now, but I’m currently wielding a nine pound ball and I’m afraid that would be…”Sara Wolf
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- “I have spent a long time being asked questions in interviews, so I've experienced it on the other side but I'…”Katie Melua
Knowledge: more sayings
- “Instead of the weight that sinks us, consequences are often the life preserver that saves us.”Craig D. Lounsbrough
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- “Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle.”Papua New Guinea Proverb
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Books by Joan Didion
Year of Magical Thinking, The
2007
Play It as It Lays
1970
slouching towards bethlehem
1985
The White Album
1979
Blue nights
2011