What Is A Writer S Duty Quotes

#1. To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.

Marcel Proust

#2. One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.

Mary Abigail Dodge

#3. The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

John F. Kennedy

#4. The real duty of a motivational speaker and an inspirational writer must be to inspire lives to live and leave distinctive footprints which shall qualify such lives to eternal eternity in the Kingdom of God notwithstanding how minute or great the footprints might be

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#5. A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Debasish Mridha

#6. It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

Vasily Grossman

#7. When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Mark Twain

#8. Duty is sinless.

Amit Kalantri

#9. Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Iris Chang

#10. The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

Edward Abbey

#11. I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

Juliana Hatfield

#12. A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

Zadie Smith

#13. A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Mo Yan

#15. Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

Thomas Paine

#16. I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

W.P. Kinsella

#17. The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

John F. Kennedy

#18. I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

E.B. White

#19. A writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

Storm Jameson

#20. As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.

Leonid Brezhnev

#21. But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Edward Abbey

#22. As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

Jay Griffiths

#23. It is the duty of the writer to describe.

Virginia Woolf

#24. Your whole duty as a writer is to please and satisfy yourself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

William Strunk Jr.

#25. Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Gao Xingjian

#26. A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

E.B. White

#27. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.

Edward Abbey

#28. And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Thomas Keneally

#29. I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Eric Brown

#30. Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

Pat Barker

#31. To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Brander Matthews

#32. The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

William Styron

#33. If you're a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.

Theodora Goss

#34. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Marcel Proust