> there's no point in writing something unless people are compelled to read it I would probably disagree with this, if only in the sense that there are several

> there's no point in writing something unless people are compelled to read it I would probably disagree with this, if only in the sense that there are several works I can think of that at the time of publication were ignored, only to be re-appraised at a later date. It can be very hard to determine whether your writing is compelling, and even if your contemporaries decide it isn't there's no reason it may not be relevant in the future.