Joan Didion Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Time is the school in which we learn.

  Joan Didion

  New Year, School, Time Management

  "Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge". Book by Delmore Schwartz, 1959.

• Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

  Joan Didion

  Powerful, Book, Reading

• I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Book, School

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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