Character Quote by Philip Pullman

Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are…

— Kameron Hurley

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

— Stewart O'Nan

“The best way to teach people is by telling a story”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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

“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

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if…

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Morris Gleitzman

“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously…

— Orson Scott Card

The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life…

— Anonymous

“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

— Peter Morgan

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

— James Lapine