Books Quote by Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

“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

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

— C. S. Lewis

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Nothing I write ever has a moral. If it seems to a reader that there is one, that is unintentional.

— Louise Erdrich

For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow…

— Anonymous

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

— Tim Gunn

“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.”

— Connie Willis

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your…

— Vincent Cassel

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story,…

— Tom T. Hall

“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

“Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.”

— Matthew Jarpe