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Joan Didion Lists the Books That Make Her Write Better - Flashbak

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Visit the shop Writer and journalist Joan Didion, curious as to the acuity about the technical act of writing read enough to formulate a list of her all-time favourite books. If you want to write better, read everything and anything. Writer and journalist Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021), curious as to the acuity about the technical act of writing read enough to formulate a list of her all-time favourite books. Given that too many people in power read one book, find they like it and read no more, Didion’s list is  guide to testing your thoughts. The list includes Ernest Hemingway who, as she told the Paris Review in 1978, “taught me how sentences worked” –  “When I was fifteen or sixteen I would type out his stories to learn how the sentences worked. I taught myself to type at the same time. A few years ago when I was teaching a course at Berkeley I reread A Farewell to Arms and fell right back into those sentences. I mean they’re perfect sentences. Very direct senten

If you want to write better, read everything and anything. Writer and journalist Joan Didion (December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021), curious as to the acuity about the technical act of writing read enough to formulate a list of her all-time favourite books. Given that too many people in power read one book, find they like it and read no more, Didion’s list is guide to testing your thoughts. The list includes Ernest Hemingway who, as she told the Paris Review in 1978, “taught me how sentences worked” – “When I was fifteen or sixteen I would type out his stories to

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