Care Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“A writer's moral duty is to use language thoughtfully and well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Marcel Proust

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

— William Styron

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

— 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

It is the duty of the writer to describe.

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Zadie Smith

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

— Carlos Fuentes

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

— Cynthia Ozick