Fear Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

“But it appeared to Dorian Gray that the true nature of the senses had never been understood, and that they had remained savage and…

— 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

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

— Ayn Rand

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope…

— Jane Smiley

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

— Milan Kundera

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

— Louise Erdrich

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the…

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

There are some things fundamentally off about the stance of the book. And maybe that's okay; maybe every book is flawed, and great books,…

— George Saunders

“I do not know any moral to be deduced from this view of the subject [of personal character], but one, namely, that we should…

— William Hazlitt