Tomorrow in a roundtable discussion in my Advanced Non-Fiction class at UCLA Extension I’m going to ask my students two questions:

1. Why do you read? (and how do you chose what you’re going to read?)

2. Why do you write? (and would you write if there’s no chance of getting published?)

These seem like fairly simple questions on the surface but I’m hoping they’ll make my students look deeply into their own writing and also into their reading life. I’ll post some of their replies and my own in a few days.

Meanwhile I’d love to hear your answers. Please post them.