Veronica Roth Quotes

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I labor to be brief, and manage to be obscure.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.