Quotes About Nuance

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

In general, I like contradictions and complex situations.

We're all complex creatures, and we shouldn't have to pick one thing to be passionate about. Life isn't black and white, so we shouldn't live that way.

People are more complicated than you give them credit for.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

there's no pure way to say it.

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.

People are often ready to accept a false dilemma because few feel comfortable with complexity and nuanced distinctions. They like sweeping absolutes. They want clear and simple choices. So, those skilled in manipulating people, face them with false dilemmas (one alternative of which is the one the manipulator wants them to choose, the other alternative clearly unacceptable). They present arguments in black or white form.

There are good and bad sides to everything. We just have to balance them as best we can.

So. Ixnay on the direct approach.

some stories don't need telling

I guess some stories do not need telling.

The less there is to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely and carefully. This is critical to abstract art. Small differences make all the difference.

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white.

Darkness does not always equal bad and Light does not always mean good.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world and think in absolute terms:

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad."

the metamessage yields heart meaning.

The good stuff is in the details.

Good is not always good.

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!