About Quote by Pat Barker

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is…

— Pat Barker

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is…

— Jane Rule

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

— Anita Brookner

“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and…

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

“What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?”

— Julian Barnes

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

— John Cheever

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

— Nancy Kress

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that…

— Rick Riordan

“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and troubled many…

— Anonymous

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

— Ben Marcus

I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve problems in creative ways.

— Eleanor Catton