Purpose of Writing Quotes

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

I have never sought the reason why I write.

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.