Duty Quote by Iris Chang

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…

— Theodora Goss

I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen,…

— F. Sionil José

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a…

— Doris Lessing

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

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

— Anonymous

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

— E. B. White

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

— Joseph Brodsky

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in…

— Donna Tartt

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I…

— Truman Capote

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

— Jay Griffiths