Joan Didion’s Cure for Bankrupt Mornings by Krista

“All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely an inflexibly as a position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences. The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement.”

-Joan Didion, “Why I Write,” New York Times, December 5th 1976

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