Play It as It Lays - Joan Didion

Jeanine Nault

““When I was ten years old my father taught me to assess quite rapidly the shifting probabilities on a craps layout: I could trace a layout in my sleep, the field here and the pass line all around, even money on Big Six or Eight, five-for-one on Any Seven. Always when I play back my father's voice it is with a professional rasp, it goes as it lays, don't do it the hard way. My father advised me tha”

gigi

“fuck you, duh. It’s a classic for a reason. Just finished my annual read for my birthday and for my birthday you have to read it too so there.”

Julia

“So intimidating it makes you never want to write again, but also so accessible it makes you want to keep writing.”