A snippet of an old Joan Didion interview with Tom Brokaw surfaced on Twitter recently.
Asked if she becomes a different person when sitting at the typewriter, Didion says it makes her feel completely in control over the “tiny, tiny world.” “It’s the only way I can be aggressive,” she says.
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