"This was not going to be an easy failure of understanding to correct"  - Joan Didion

She was talking about herself and the death of her husband, but I think this sentence might apply in other situations.  I actually copied down a lot of her other stuff when I was reading Slouching Toward Bethlehem. I just started The year of Magical Thinking.  I didn't really like either when I started.

This same thing happened when I read Annie Dillard for the first time.  Now I love her.



(this just started out as a FB post and I am now on a tangent.)