Nuanced Reality Quotes

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

The truth is always multiplex.

I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.