I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers are so important.
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.