Bills Quote by O. Henry

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

— Morris Gleitzman

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

“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

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as…

— Marshall Ganz

I know there is a moral to this story, but I don't know what it is.

— Nicole Krauss

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

— Yann Martel

“The hunt for the “moral of the story” ultimately strips the story of its essential tone, which means it runs the danger of no…

— Sarah Arthur

“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

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

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