3 Lessons on Writing from Joan Didion's Notes
"It gets me past the blank terror."
This is how Didion defines a writer: “a person whose most absorbed and passionate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper.”1 Anyone who has read Didion’s writing will not be surprised by this definition—her prose could only have been written by a person who passionately arranged words, hour after hour, day after day.
Before I went to see Joan …
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