Five Great Quotations about Why We Write

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Five Great Quotations about Why We Write

��The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it.�� - William Saroyan

��I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.�� - Octavia E. Butler

��The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.�� - Samuel Johnson

��A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).�� - Albert Camus

��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.�� - Neil Gaiman

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