Joan Didion Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, Listening, Want

• Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

  Joan Didion

  Dream, Writing

• It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

  Joan Didion

  Love, Dream, Men

• The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, Listening, Reader

• New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, New York, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 25, 2011

• We all have the same dreams.

  Joan Didion

  Dream

  Joan Didion (2011). “A Book of Common Prayer”, p.57, Vintage

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