A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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.
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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.
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.