Sandra Brown Quotes

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

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.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

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

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

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.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

I like characters who are contradictory.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.