Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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 way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.
I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.