Conviction Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

— C. S. Lewis

“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

I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

— David Grann

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot…

— James Anthony Froude

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that…

— Elisee Reclus

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral…

— Tracey Emin

“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

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as…

— Marshall Ganz

“Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or…

— Philip Pullman

“writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it,”

— Ralph Keyes