## Metadata - Author: [[Susan Orlean]] - Full Title: A Few Thoughts on Joan Didion - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/12ae1d70ae6b ## Highlights - Once in a while, you read something that is so indelible in its tone and temperament that it immediately changes what you imagine writing is all about. That is how it was for me with Joan Didion. It’s not that I recognized myself in her writing, which is why you sometimes respond so strongly to a writer.