The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity…

“But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it. It provided…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the…

— Jill Soloway

. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my…

— Craig Lucas

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

— R. Scott Bakker

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character…

— Steven Soderbergh

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

— James Hollis

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world…

— Eve Ensler

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or…

— Leon Botstein

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

— Scott Turow

You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

— Richard Rohr

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

— John le Carre

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

— Mary L. Trump

The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to…

— Martin McGuinness