authenticity Quotes

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.