Writing Purpose Quotes

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I write to be read. I've got the reader in my mind all the time.

I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

I write to learn the flow of history.

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

I write books to find out about things.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.

I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'