The mood and the atmosphere of that book kind of become overwhelming regardless of the relentlessness of the narrator and some of the terrible things that happen. That gets back to aesthetics versus ideology. But I would have to say that Didion’s style, and she was famously contrarian, she really was and it was very brave. I didn’t agree with everything that she wrote, but she was very brave to be especially a female journalist at a time where that was not the norm. So that was just my dream of how to present myself, and I don’t come anywhere near that.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 15, 2019 01:41 UTC