responsibility

Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials trilogy, talks here about the responsibilities of storytellers. I found it inspiring in a more general sense - and therefore worth sharing:

... I do know that there is a joy in responsibility, in the knowledge that what we're doing on earth, while we live, is being done to the best of our ability, and in the light of everything we know about what is good and true. If we do it well, we might be able to bring our work to the condition of that mysterious music described by Caliban, the sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not; and there's something to be said for doing that. Maybe that's all we can say.

© Philip Pullman

The whole essay can be found here.
The Caliban reference is from Shakespeare's The Tempest.