Book Quote by Louis Sachar

“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never…

— Patty Smith

In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going…

— Kate Bernheimer

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

— Oscar Wilde

I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or whatever else…

— Louis Sachar

Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not…

— Jeff Kinney

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

— Mark Twain

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

— Charles Caleb Colton

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at…

— Madame de Stael

The best books come from someplace deep inside… Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

“Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive…

— Lloyd Alexander

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've…

— Fisher Ames