Didion’s notebook entries were never intended to have an audience. How is that apparent from the entries themselves? Compare Didion’s ideas about keeping a notebook to Virginia Woolf ’s diary entries on the writing process (page 66). Focus especially on the first paragraph, in which Woolf discusses the advantages of a form of writing that is for “[her] own eye only.” Where do you fit in as a reader of Didion’s work? of Woolf ’s work? Do you think the two writers would agree about the uses of private diaries?