Duty Quote by Edward Abbey

“An author owes a duty to the truth.”

— Walter Moers

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

— Anonymous

“Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no…

— Dinty W. Moore

“Having the courage to say the truth, unabashedly, is the hardest part of writing.”

— Carolyn Moncel

“What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the…

— Thomas Bernhard

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.”

— Tara Bray Smith

“There are always struggles in writing. Anyone who denies this is either lying to themselves or you. Or they’re not faithful to their audience.”

— Phoenix Elvis Nicholson

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

— Ernest Hemingway

“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.”

— Henning Mankell

“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what…

— George Orwell

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway