Action Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Louise Erdrich

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

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

— Oscar Wilde

“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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

— Theophile Gautier

There are books where you can really see the moral question, which I think we answer every day for ourselves, in every interaction we…

— David Bezmozgis

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

— Bille August

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

— Orhan Pamuk

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

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where…

— Amy Tan