Character Quote by John Cheever

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about…

— Jodi Picoult

If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad,…

— Mary Gordon

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

— Pat Barker

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

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

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

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

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for…

— Orson Scott Card

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

— George Saunders

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy