Book Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our…

— Azar Nafisi

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

— Henry James

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

“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

Honest fiction may be made to supplement the pulpit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

— Jeannette Walls