I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to...
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't...
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more preci...
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very...
Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.
The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end. And on the contrary, Metaphors, and senslesse a...
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
My style is ambiguous and lucid.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
