Addresses Quote by Whitley Strieber

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of…

— Peter P. Sellers

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

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

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

If you don't have a good character you have nothing. Character portrays the moral values of a person.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

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

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and…

— Michael Josephson

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the…

— D. H. Lawrence