Force Quote by C. S. Lewis

“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character did in…

— Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

— Tim Gunn

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate…

— O. Henry

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess

— Lewis Carroll

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral…

— Tracey Emin

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

— Nicole Krauss

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your…

— Vincent Cassel

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where…

— Amy Tan

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as…

— Marshall Ganz

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich