[aleph_minus_one]

> I have read novels written by engineers. More often than not, they are unreadable. They fail to understand why people read (or write). They are an engineer's idea of what a novel should look like.

On the other hand: Greg Egan ([1], [2]) is a mathematician and novelist. His novels are sometimes considered to be barely readable (if you are not part of his audience). On the other hand: he does seem to understand why people read his novels - he knows his audience. :-D Readers praise his novels for the worldbuilding (though commonly the story is considered to the weaker side of many of his novels).

So I do imagine that such engineers who write novels perfectly know why people read - they just write for a different audience. :-)

[1] https://www.gregegan.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan