Sentence examples for wrote to please from inspiring English sources
Both Mary and George "wrote to please themselves," DuPlessis told me.
He may have written music for horror movies, Hitchcock thrillers, TV westerns -- but basically he wrote to please himself, as artists frequently do.
Then I read one of the volumes of Taruskin's biography of Stravinsky, and realized how codependent Stravinksy was with his critics, and how he wrote to please them.
After some two dozen tragedies written to please the public, he was writing to please himself, free of deadlines, to pass the time.
"Newspapers are written to please, or annoy, powerful people, depending on who owns them.
Coleen Bradley will write to express herself artistically instead of writing to please her bosses and make money.
But I expect a great deal of my writing and I'm not writing to please anyone.
If you write to please other people, said novelist and journalist Emily Maguire, you're doomed to failure.
If it ever gets to the point where travel pieces are written to please advertisers, then the game is up.
But then most books aren't written to please a success-predicting algorithm — not even this one.
In his book Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please: The Case for Plain Language in Business, Government, and Law, Joseph Kimble cites a number of them.
