Aim Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is…

— Seamus Heaney

Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will…

— Andrew O'Hagan

For novelists, sharply drawn moral conflicts are often useful, and even human and personal disasters can be seen as material.

— Justin Cartwright

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying…

— Rita Mae Brown

To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to…

— Anne Lamott

“You must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Tell…

— Anne Lamott

“Good writers don’t moralize, nor do they preach, but they do create longing for the true and the beautiful.”

— Douglas Bond

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he…

— Andre Maurois

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience…

— Noam Chomsky

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook