Morality Quote by Anthony Burgess

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

“we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.”

— Thomas C. Foster

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

“I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable…

— Robin McKinley

“Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to…

— Richard Denney

“No fiction is good fiction unless it is true to life, and yet no life is worth relating unless it be a life out…

— William Gerhardie

“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.”

— James D. Maxon