Believe Quote by Orhan Pamuk

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

— Sheri S. Tepper

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

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience…

— Noam Chomsky

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to…

— Anne Lamott

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

— George Washington

I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write. Even though…

— Hope Larson

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he…

— Andre Maurois