Renz Ogena

“Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“They only hit you when they care.”
― Junot Díaz, The Sun, the Moon, the Stars

“I am not in the least an intellectual, which is not to say that when I hear the word "intellectual" I reach for my gun, but only to say that I do not think in abstracts.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean