Bewildered Quote by Jane Rule

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a…

— Whitley Strieber

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

“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

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

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 write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of…

— Peter P. Sellers

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

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

— Anita Brookner

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms…

— Rick Bass