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Didion Joan:     more books (101)

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion, 1977-01-01 El aòo del pensamiento mâgico, de Joan Didion: Susana Alexander, actriz y directora.: An article from: Siempre! by Gonzalo Valdês Medellîn, 2009-02-08 THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion, 2007-01-01 Perspectives On The Individual: Freshman Seminar (Maryville College) by Joan Didion, 1998 JOHN DIDION by Joan. Katherine Usher Henderson Didion, 1981 Vintage Didion by Joan DIDION, 2003-01-01 Some Women by Mapplethorpe & Joan Didion, 1990-01-01 Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion, 1978 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion, 1977-01-01 Una Liturgia Comun by DIDION JOAN, 2007 Salvador by Joan Didion, 1983-01-01 After Henry by Joan Didion, 1991-01-01 Democracy by Joan DIDION, 1984 Ano do Pensamento Mágico, O by Joan Didion, 2006

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81. Katalog - Wirtualna Polska
    Serwis Katalog w Wirtualna Polska S.A. pierwszy portal w Polsce.  
    http://katalog.wp.pl/DMOZ/Arts/Literature/Authors/D/Didion%2C_Joan

82. Why I Write
    From The New York Times Magazine, December 5, 1976. Copyright 1976 by JoanDidion and The New York Times Company. Used without permission.  
    http://www.idiom.com/~rick/html/why_i_write.htm
    
    Extractions: Excerpts from Why I write From The New York Times Magazine , December 5, 1976. Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write . There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this: I I I 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. Its an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasionswith the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than statingbut theres no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writers sensibility on the readers most private space. I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because they seemed to sum up, in a no-nonsense way, all I have to tell you. Like many writers I have only this one "subject," this one "area": the act of writing. I can bring you no reports from any other front. I may have other interests: I am "interested," for example, in marine biology, but I don’t flatter myself that you would come out to hear me talk about it. I am not a scholar. I am not in the least an intellectual, which is not to say that when I hear the word "intellectual" I reach for my gun, but only to say that I do not think in abstracts. During the years when I was an undergraduate at Berkeley, I tried, with a kind of hopeless late-adolescent energy, to buy some temporary visa into the world of ideas, to forge for myself a mind that could deal with abstract.

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