via The Paris Review — “You know how doctors who work with children get….
It’s 36 years since I first fell in love with Didion’s writing and I really must pick up her work again.
“You know how doctors who work with children get the children to tell stories? And they figure out from the stories what’s frightening the child, what’s worrying the child, what the child thinks? Well, a novel is just a story. You work things out in the stories you tell.”
Read her 1978 Art of Fiction interview and 2006 Art of Nonfiction interview.
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