ABSTRACT
Conscience is powerful and influences us in profound ways. The author maintains that we always know what our conscience tells us. When Shakespeare through Hamlet says "Conscience doth make cowards of us all", he's talking about the power of conscience to make us think and that stops us from doing rash and impulsive things that may be unwise. To be an ethical writer one wants to create work that is true and satisfying, a writer must write with a conscience that will give warning when personal truth has been transgressed. In order to get in touch with that conscience, writers must sincerely examine their interior lives and determine the personal values that drive their work. To determine personal values, each of us must carefully examine what it is in life that has great worth to us and to distinguish between what we take casually and what we truly value.
