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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. -- J.P. Donleavy
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
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
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people. -- Berry Gordy
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
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. -- Nadine Gordimer
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words. -- Teju Cole
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good. -- Hilary Mantel
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 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
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
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

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