Simplicity Quote by Yan Lianke

“When faced with complexity, the answer is simplicity.”

— George Choy

“You need simplicity to create complexity”

— Tarryn Fisher

“All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”

— John Yorke

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for…

— Joanna Scott

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”

— David Shenk

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are…

— Zadie Smith

“The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple; are concrete rather than abstract; assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story work in…

— Nicola Griffith

“Yet in your stories, you must imagine all these things, not just because it will make the world of your story more complete, but…

— Orson Scott Card

“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson