Dua Lipa: At Your Service

Greta Gerwig

Nov 25, 2022
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INSIGHT

Write From Where You Are

  • Greta says deep roots give writers a topography to draw from.
  • She credits Joan Didion for showing that you can write about your hometown.
ANECDOTE

Joan Didion Gave Permission To Write Locally

  • Greta recounts a Joan Didion passage that captured Sacramento's small-town dismissal.
  • She says that passage gave her permission to write honestly about where she's from.
ANECDOTE

Daily Compulsion To Write

  • Greta keeps boxes of notes and must jot things daily to feel lived.
  • She says not writing makes her feel like she hasn't existed that day.
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