Joan Didion Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Trying, Doe

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

• The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

  Joan Didion

  Home, Writing, Trying

• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Share, Inexplicable

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

• There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

  Joan Didion

  Landscape, Homesick, Nostalgia

• There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

  Joan Didion

  Grieving, Impulse, Persons

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