Guardian Unlimited Books || Interview: Joan Didion:
When Quintana died, she stopped writing. 'I'm going through this process twice now. It's a different process, because the relationship to a child is at once more fundamental and less intimate. Because a grown child has his or her own life and isn't part of your daily life. And you might talk on the phone once a day, but that's not every breath you take. Which someone you live with is.'