Quotes About Authenticity

You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

I live to defy y'all's expectations.

Do you ever have the feeling that everybody's making everything up, all the time?

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

It's like when someone says, 'How are you?' do you say, 'Well, mt head hurts and I'm lonely and depressed and I'm worried about everything and the world is collapsing and full of evil? Or do you say, I'm fine?

The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.

Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

Maybe the best reputation is no reputation. Maybe it's best not to care whatsoever how people see you. Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.

VERY PRETTY, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LIARS

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

When we lived in Minneapolis, you weren't begging to do photo shoots with strange people. Just because we live in LA now doesn't mean you need to be different. It also doesn't mean you're suddenly famous.

Somos lo que pretendemos ser así que debemos tener cuidado con lo que pretendemos ser (Kurt Vonnegut)

to the bone instead of her own

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don't invite someone into your world very easily.

Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.

There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Thena . . . I fell in love with you as you are. Fractured, maybe. Lost, perhaps. But I'm no prize either.

Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?