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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

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

— William Stafford

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our…

— Alexis De Veaux

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

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

— Zadie Smith

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he…

— George Saunders

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

— Thomas Mann