Quotes About Nuance

Funny how one little word can mean 'full of or disposed to joy and mirth', 'homosexual' and 'rubbish'. It just shows that context is everything.

Sophistication is the craft of subtlety that goes noticed.

There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. Both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

Music shapes and shivers into endless colours, nuanced and diverse, and eternally creative. It is Spirit taking form.

all good books are bad!

I cannot see as they see, in shades of advantage and degrees of subtlety.

The corner of her mouth quirked; it wasn't humour.

People are so complicated.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

'The Duino Elegies' are notoriously cryptic, and part of the reason why I have always loved them is because they invite multiple readings over the course of a lifetime.

Real life is far more complicated than fiction.

If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box or the good box. They're real people that you care about, and you invest in their journey.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

Sometimes we see things as being black or white. Perhaps you have two categories of coworkers in your mind - the good ones and the bad ones. Or, maybe you look at each project as either a success or a failure. Recognize the shades of gray, rather than putting things in terms of all good or all bad.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

There are gray areas in everything.

We live in a gray world, and I want to tell gray stories.

To ground a character in reality, you have to use shades of gray.