Joan Juliet Buck Professions : Writer Born : 1948 Browse All Authors Top 17 quotes by Joan Juliet Buck I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all. Joan Juliet Buck hate tables thinking My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together. Joan Juliet Buck phones smoking thinking With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style. Joan Juliet Buck style hair long There is something very attractive about blonds, especially for brunettes. Its been said that blonds are loved and brunettes do the loving. Joan Juliet Buck brunette attractive said The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully. Joan Juliet Buck airline stewards lawyer I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was resentful, shy, and inhibited around people who had written books. They'd done things I wanted to do. Joan Juliet Buck baby book thinking To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling. Joan Juliet Buck falling-in-love love-is thinking The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. Joan Juliet Buck californians energy wonderful Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own. Joan Juliet Buck paris my-own feels When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous. Joan Juliet Buck dangerous doubt writing Practically everything I did as an experiment while I was working on the book made me feel cold, angry, and decidedly peculiar. Clinical. Because I wasn't acting from the motives people usually work from: to feel good, to have fun, to make something last. Joan Juliet Buck fun book people I'm scared that if I collaborated on something with somebody, I would be in some way losing my own contact with what I was going and tempting fate. Joan Juliet Buck fate would-be way I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about. Joan Juliet Buck next pages novel I only envy as basic old sexual jealousy. Joan Juliet Buck envy I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing. Joan Juliet Buck skins feelings years I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time. Joan Juliet Buck los-angeles paris new-york I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that. Joan Juliet Buck missing house love-is Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
