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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

- Joan Didion
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Joan Didion
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

Sangat mudah untuk melihat permulaan sesuatu, dan lebih sulit untuk melihat akhirnya.

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.

Sangat mudah untuk melihat permulaan sesuatu, dan lebih sulit untuk melihat akhirnya.

Duka, ketika datang, tidak seperti yang kita harapkan.

I am always writing to myself.

In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.' It's an aggressive, even a hostile act.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's.

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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.