Books Quote by Donald McCaig

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of a higher…

— Roberto Bola√±o

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and…

— Anthony Burgess

“It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey”

— Jane Austen

“Victorian novels come to us, that is, poised between questions of outer and inner, public and private life; they tend to contrast and nally…

— Hilary Schor

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis

“Tell it, Fanny. About the crowds, streets, buildings, lights, about the whirligig of loneliness, about the humpty-dumpty clutter of longings. And then explain about…

— Ben Hecht

“Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted. George Saunders The Bookseller”

— C. Robert Cales

“The words of Jane Eyre skipped through my mind. How deceiving they were. No wonder the council had outlawed books. Stories enabled you to…

— Tiffany Truitt

“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”

— Anthony Burgess