Joan Didion Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

• You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.

  Joan Didion

  Character, Want, Complicated

• Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking. Then I start to love them. By the time I finish the book, I love them so much that I want to stay with them. I don't want to leave them ever.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Character, Talking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Dec 09, 2012

• Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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

• I don't have a very clear idea of who the characters are until they start talking.

  Joan Didion

  Character, Talking, Ideas

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