Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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