Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

- Joan Juliet Buck

When you're writing, you're demented, alone, and full of doubt. It feels dangerous.

- Joan Juliet Buck

I'd like to live in Paris, New York, and Los Angeles all at the same time.

- Joan Juliet Buck

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

- Joan Juliet Buck

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 peo…

- Joan Juliet Buck

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 h…

- Joan Juliet Buck

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

With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it…

- Joan Juliet Buck

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 befor…

- Joan Juliet Buck