Alive Quote by Robert Lowell

Immoral books are the ones that show the world their own shame.

— Anonymous

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

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

I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way.

— Peter Pace

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

— Milan Kundera

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is…

— Gregory Maguire

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be…

— J. Vernon McGee

“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

“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be…

— Clyde Brion Davis