"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Ambiguity, Ending, Open

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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

Graham Nelson, English Mathematician

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"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."

Holly Black, American Author

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"In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."

Aldrich Ames, American Criminal

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"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."

Skeet Ulrich, American Actor

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"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Roger von Oech, American Author

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"To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting."

Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

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"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

Home

"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."

Time

"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

Research

"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."

Expression

"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."

Time

"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

World

"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

Opinion

"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

Perception

"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Darkness

"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."

Time