Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Louise Erdrich

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

— Don DeLillo

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you…

— Dorothy Allison

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Readers often root for characters that are innocent victims – or who are subjected to forces beyond their control.”

— Rob Parnell

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.

— Richard Hughes

No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a…

— Anthony McCarten

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

— John Lewis

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Morality is a fiction used by a herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior ones..!!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche