Draws Quote by Douglas Adams

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald

“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

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

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

— Barbara Kingsolver

It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel about the…

— Dave Abrams

“Could newspapers now be held hostage by any dangerous lunatic who wanted his opinions heard?”

— John E. Douglas

Within the small crew of people who hold the media's many 'NeverTrump' positions, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Pete Wehner doesn't get enough…

— Mollie Hemingway

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

— Karen Joy Fowler

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly…

— P. D. James

“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.”

— Robin Sacredfire

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a…

— Fred Rodell

I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.

— Karen Lord