It is the duty of the writer to describe.

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will…

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Pat Barker

I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is…

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Iris Chang

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

— Brander Matthews

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is…

— Markus Zusak

Be sure to do your duty today, and let God Take care of the outcome.

— Anonymous

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

— Pierre Trudeau

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

England expects every man to do his duty

— Horatio Nelson

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

— George Washington

“Duty is a done deal.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.…

— L. Tom Perry

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch