Books Quote by Louise Erdrich

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

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where…

— Amy Tan

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our…

— Azar Nafisi

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 don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Ralph Keyes