there was a young woman from boobville ...

If you want to be a painter, why do you look at pictures? If you want to be a filmmaker, why do you watch films? If you want to be a chef, why do you eat? Well, okay, maybe that one's a bit obvious, but then so should the answer be. A, to learn how the best (or the ones you like best) do it; two, because you can't write all the time; and thirdly, because good grief, it's all part of the same thing. The love of writing is the love of reading. You write for the pleasure of reading what you've written. (Except for chapter fourteen, of course, but you can fix that later.) And when other people read it, that pleasure is raised to the power of lots.