Joan Didion Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

• Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Sleep, Rooms

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Oct 15, 2011

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

  Joan Didion

  Sleep, Going To Sleep, Let Me

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.97, Knopf

• When I am near the end of a book, I have to sleep in the same room with it.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Sleep, Rooms

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