Joan Didion, Why I Write

“When I say that I was wondering if the lights were on in the bevatron up the hill you might immediately suspect, if you deal in ideas at all, that I was registering the bevatron as a political symbol, thinking in short-hand about the military-industrial complex and its role in the university community, but you would be wrong.” (180).

In her essay, entitled “Why I Write,” author Joan Didion explains why she chose to become a writer in a direc...