Purpose of writing...

    When I first read this essay I didn’t understand it. I had to read it at least five times, for me to understand the essay. Reading this essay made me realize that I am also not an abstract thinker. While I was reading this essay, I was thinking of other things that really have no relevance to the essay. And it took me some time to actually focus, and understand, which it has happened many times. I think that Didion writes because she is always asking herself questions, and writing a story or a novel is a way of getting answers to those questions. When Didion states that …”setting word on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writers sensibility on the readers most privet space.” It caught me a little by surprise, because I never really thought about it that way. But it makes sense when you think about it, because the writer is expressing their point of view about something, and there is no room for the reader to express his or hers point of view, what I mean to say is there is no room for conversation or debate. Which leads me to consider that writing is a selfish act. You write because you want to, because you like it, because you feel inspired, to express your feelings, or to find out what you’re feeling. But you don’t write because of what the other person is feeling.