Why Write

“There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.”

                            - John Fowles

I have trouble with writing quotations when powerful beginnings are followed by weak opinions -- opinions I do not, cannot, and will not share. Is it true? Is “a need to create an alternative world” the “in common” reason novelists write? Really?

"[T]he need to create an alternative world” is more consequence than reason. Novelists write because they love writing. Now there is a reason!

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