That has to be the aim, true enough... too many writers just pour-out a stream of banal events and descriptions of dull characters saying and doing dull things... these people have NOTHING INSPIRING to say. In my stories, etc., I've always felt at least a vague passion for what I'm writing about. Since I'm an amateur at the art of writing, this doesn't make my efforts gripping like the real professionals... I mean like Kafka, Dostoyevsky (at least up to Crime & Punishment), Hesse, Henry Miller... Carl Sagan, Asimov, Camus... etc., who inspired me. There's numerous brilliant and articulate thinkers/writers of more recent times too, of course. We owe them, but to emulate is another issue. Can one learn such skills in deep thought that inspire? We can give it a go, at least...
