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I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different. -- Jesse Ball
I seem to get totally wrapped up in teaching and working with students during the school year. During the summer, I try to spend time in the real world, writing code for therapy and perhaps for some useful purpose. -- Brian Kernighan
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book. -- Henning Mankell
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. -- Tatyana Tolstaya
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If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing. -- Amish Tripathi
The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. -- William S. Burroughs
I think there's no purpose for writing music if it is not meaningful. -- Darren Fletcher
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. -- J.P. Donleavy
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose. -- George Orwell
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. -- Alan Moore
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. -- John Mason Brown
Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow. -- Bob Proctor
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose. -- Heidi Julavits
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! -- Bill Watterson

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