{"text":"The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.","author":"Joy Williams","tags":["life-purpose","nothingness","purpose","serve","somethingness","why-we-write","writers","writing"],"id":14920,"author_id":"Joy+Williams"}