The Believer spoke over the phone with Joan Didion
- JD: I think it develops into a fairly stable thing over time. I think it’s not at all stable at first. But then you kind of grow into the role you have made for yourself.
- BLVR: How do you gauge the distance between the role you have made for yourself—
- JD: —and the real person?
- BLVR: Yeah.
- JD: Well, I don’t know. The real person becomes the role you have made for yourself.
