Books Quote by D. H. Lawrence

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

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

— Anita Brookner

“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.”

— Martin Sandforth

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

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

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that…

— Rick Riordan

I didn't know anything about romance novels until a friend suggested that I try writing one. After I read a few, I realized that…

— Ruth Glick

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

— Arundhati Roy

“I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into…

— Mary Burchell

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

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life…

— Pat Conroy