Believe Quote by Azar Nafisi

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope…

— Jane Smiley

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

— Oscar Wilde

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the…

— D. H. Lawrence

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an…

— Randall Jarrell

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera

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

— Pat Barker

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan