The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.
A writer's work is to witness things.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.