Joan Didion Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Mother, Writing

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

• I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

• I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Book, School

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

• I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, War, Coffee

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.121, Zola Books

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