Roger Rosenblatt Outlines His 4 Reasons to Write

Click on the link above to go to the video on PBS.  Rosenblatt’s four most excellent reasons:

“We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desirable and love possible. And I can elaborate on those things.

But the most important is love. That after all the suffering, all the injustice, all the evil that one sees in the world, if you can rise above it and make it beautiful, and thus lovable then that’s worth a life.”