Beloved Quote by Helen Gurley Brown

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people’s lives.

— Guy Kawasaki

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

— Zygmunt Bauman

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

Book writing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Anyone who decides to write a book must expect to invest a lot of time and effort…

— Dan Poynter

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book…

— Patrick Duffy

There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those…

— Anonymous

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing…

— Aidan Chambers

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say…

— Quentin Crisp

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie…

— Thomas Lennon

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something…

— Gene Weingarten