To be an author

Good day to the absolutely zero amount of people who will read this, is a great pleasure to not know you.
I write, secure in the knowledge that these very words will never be read by anyone but me and I know what they are in advance! The statistical count on my page informs me that it is not visited by, well, anybody. Of course that is not the sole purpose of such pages, they are as much about , self-penned therapy, as much as one publishes them hoping the page might be read by some stranger who then becomes a regular subscriber?
So does it matter if I get the spelling correct or the punctuation in the right place? Well, if like me, you love the English language and like to read it, written in the correct way, then it does.
English is a much used and universal language, not given to say the romance of Italian or French,
it is never the less rich in its lexicon of words and the intrinsic ability to convey meaning in a varied and descriptive way, that in my opinion is unmatched in the world of so many different languages.
I am not promoting English as the greatest language but is is up there in the top one.
Of course I am English and therefore cheerfully admit to an unashamed bias. Many works of great literature have been written in languages other than English but when translated,  by an expert, will almost always translate and convey the meaning that the author has written.
I aspire to be an author, they say there is one novel in everyone given the chance to express it, I have started many but never been able to write more than a few chapters. I consider myself to be a story teller but am unable or to lazy to sustain the effort.
These days every minor celebrity or anyone who believes they have a story to tell seem able to produce a volume (yes I know many are ghost written), book shop shelves and electronic media are groaning with the weight of all the words that are written and published every day. From chefs to Zoologists, there are books of every variety and stripe covering every subject that a human brain can concoct or think might sell and be interesting to a readership somewhere.
And that is good. Alright a lot of this blizzard of written words is crap but a great deal of it is entertaining, stimulating, life altering,informative, educating, moving, romantic, historical or just a great story, well told. It takes us to places we have never been, fires our imagination, makes us laugh and cry, sometimes helps in tough times.
A good read is exactly that.