Francisco’s Journal

The answer to the question “why do you write” should be the same as the answer to the question “why do you read?”

Here’s a quote from Annie Dillard’s “The Writing Life” that I turn to often when I’m writing: “Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking.”

Posted on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 6:47 pm Categorized as:Writing, Reading Technorati Tags: writing, Writing as Spiritual Practice, writing discipline;Annie Dillard

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