Character Quote by Don DeLillo

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

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

— Douglas Bond

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

“I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it…

— James DeSantis

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously…

— Orson Scott Card

“It’s true that what can be done will be done. It’s inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has much to…

— David Ambrose

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is…

— Jane Rule

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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