{"quotes":[{"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"},{"text":"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["poetry","pretty","richelle","richelle-goodrich","why-we-write","writing"],"id":158833,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. But for the pure joy of creating something and sharing it.","author":"Ernest Barbaric","tags":["create","creating","creation","creative-act","creative-genius","creative-mind","creative-process","creative-work","creative-writing","creatives","creativity","creativity","creator","desire","desires","do","happiness","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","joy","joy-of-life","joy","joyful-living","joyfulness","make-stuff","motivate","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational","motivators","passion","passion-project","passion-projects","passionate","passions","what-do-i-want","what-do-we-want","what-matters","what-matters-most","what-to-do","what-to-live-for","what-you-want","why-are-we-here","why-are-you-alive","why-are-you-here","why-do-you-want-it","why-i-write","why-we-are-alive","why-we-are-here","why-we-do-what-we-do","why-we-live","why-we-live-on-earth","why-we-wake-up","why-we-write"],"id":253043,"author_id":"Ernest+Barbaric"},{"text":"That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.","author":"Kelly Marcel \u0026 Sue Smith","tags":["create","creating","creating-reality","disney","dream","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","fiction","fiction-vs-reality","fiction-writing","film","film","film","filmmaking","hope","hopeful","imagining","mary-poppins","movie","movie-making","movie","movie","moviemaking","pl-travers","saving-mr-banks","story-teller","story-telling","storyteller","storytellers","storytelling","travers","walt-disney","why-i-read","why-i-write","why-we-read","why-we-write","why-write-fiction","write","writer","writer-inspiration","writers","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers","writing-craft"],"id":271613,"author_id":"Kelly+Marcel+%26+Sue+Smith"},{"text":"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.","author":"Laini Taylor","tags":["why-we-write","writing","writing-life"],"id":418707,"author_id":"Laini+Taylor"},{"text":"Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. Out of fear that the memory of myself might get lost. Or even just to be shielded by a story, to slip inside a story and stop being recognizable, controllable, subject to blackmail.","author":"Fabrizio de André","tags":["poets","songwriters","why-we-write","writer","writers-on-writing"],"id":443852,"author_id":"Fabrizio+de+Andr%C3%A9"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}