I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

“I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.”

— Isabel Allende

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own…

— Tavi Gevinson

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing…

— Tavi Gevinson

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

— Chris Claremont

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

— Lewis Black

The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide,…

— Paul Harding

When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area…

— Michael Sheen

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black…

— Graham Elliot

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas…

— Jeff Lindsay

If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a…

— Robert Redford

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect…

— Emily Giffin

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the…

— Dan Brown

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going…

— Robert Redford

Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at…

— Isaiah Washington

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

— Edward Jay Epstein