“It unfolds as you write it. That’s something I never believed before I wrote a book, but it does.”
"I don’t know what I think until I write it down."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion
Self-awareness
"Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
Integrity
"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
- Joan Didion
Personal Growth
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
- Joan Didion
Inspiration
"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
- Maya Angelou
Creativity
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
- Jamie Paolinetti
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity