Does A Writer Have A Responsibility To Anything Other Than Her Art (Like Being A Decent Human Being)?

Zoë Heller: “The belief that artists are entitled to be morally careless – that great art excuses everything – has proved to be one of the more tenacious parts of our Romantic inheritance.”
Francine Prose: “The landscape of literary history is littered with the wreckage of writers who thought they were on a mission.”