Joan Didion Quotes About Impulse
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The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.
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There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
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There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it
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