Why Write? Roger Rosenblatt Responds
Posted on February 1st, 2011 by GD
“Why write?” asked interviewer Jeffrey Brown of author Roger Rosenblatt, author of the new book Unless It Moves The Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing.
“We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desirable, and love possible.”
Rosenblatt advises students of writing to “strive for anticipation, rather than surprise, imagination, rather than invention,… and to write with precision and restraint.”
Read the transcript or watch the video of this interview on PBS Newshour, January 31, 2011.
Thanks for the pointer, MC.
