Ambiguity Quote by Vikram Chandra

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some…

— Nicholas Mosley

“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing…

— S.A. Reid

I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course…

— Sue Grafton

“...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying…

— John Barth

Of course I knew that writing was terrifically hard work and that there was no secret code, as in a video game, that would…

— Ben Dolnick

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

— Scott Turow

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.…

— Colm Tóibín

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So I began…

— Paul Fussell

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

— Colm Toibin

Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express the feelings…

— Edward Hirsch

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson