The question of what propels creators, especially great creators, is the subject of eternal fascination and curiosity that is cultural. The curtain on one of the most celebrated and distinctive voices of American fiction and literary journalism to reveal what it is that has compelled her to spend half a century putting pen to paper in”Why I Write,” originally published in the New York Times Book Review on December 5, 1976 and found in The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1 (public library), Joan Didion—whose indelible insight on self-respect is a must-read for all—peels. Continue reading “Setting words in some recoverable format could be the tactic of a secret bully,” and other selections from Why I Write