A Quote by Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

Joan Didion

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Joan Didion
American - Author
Born: December 5, 1934

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Joan Didion

I think people have this perception of the life that I lead, or that we lead, of drivers, the high life. It's not that.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.

Tennessee Williams

I lead a very conventional life.

Joan Didion

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Michael Leunig

I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.

Octavia Spencer

I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.

Lena Waithe

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

Charlize Theron

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Viola Davis

Labour needs to lead - lead on Brexit, lead in Europe, lead for the people.

Clive Lewis

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

Graydon Carter

A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

Umera Ahmad

Either you lead a life which is luxurious on the material level or you lead a luxurious life of God's blessings. One of these two you have to choose, the time has come.

Nirmala Srivastava

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...