Analysis Of A Writer's Duty By Annie Dillard

A Writer and the Heart of Man Writing is an art, exquisitely beautiful. The author writes every single adjective, verb, and noun with a purpose because it all matters, because that is a writer’s duty. As William Faulkner states in his speech A Writer’s Duty, “The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help endure and prevail.” From this, Faulkner communicates to the reader that a writer’s duty is to write with emotion, to write with fear, to write with love. The intention of a writing is so the author is laid out in rage, but restored with glory, scared, but healed, his bones should be seen as broken on the piece of paper because from that, the writer will prevail and will lift the heart …show more content…
By her tone being quite didactic but yet jovial, Dillard is able to achieve Faulkner’s description of a writer’s duty. “….aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet ….. see the represented world through it.” Dillard uses this to show that authors must make a connection between the real world and something that will interest the reader, something that will keep the reader intrigued in reading the emotions laid out by the author. “ …. A reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.” An author must not write without analyzing the reason they feel pleasure in what they are writing. Dillard writes with soul as her spirit is capable of compassion for non-fiction, with her pen in her hand she holds the sacrifice of writing for man. Dillard describes writing as an art, as a piece of who she is. She argues that writing must been done with love, nothing less. “Willpower has very little to do with it.” From this Dillard furthers her argument that you don’t make a decision to write. “You do it out of love.” Love is the reason to write, it is strong, and it shows that you feel passionately about what you are writing. Authors must write with love because it is, “what we’re here to do.” For are book not to be ephemeral and doomed, authors must write with love, in which Faulkner sees as a writer’s …show more content…
“Depressing as it was, arriving at the front step of the house meant that I had completed the first leg of that bitter tasting journey to my bedroom.” As unrealistic as it seems, Sedaris relates to the reader by showing how hysterical yet abnormal his tics were, and the life he was stuck in. Sedaris dug deep into in memories as Annie Dillard said authors must do. He doesn’t just tell the reader what he did in his childhood, but he told the reason, he told the little details. It was not a simple summarization but an analysis of his desperation. To do so he had to write with the pain of scars, giving his emotions up for