Quotes About Authenticity

Never post boring back-to-back selfies.

I post less-than-flattering selfies and don't try to change who I am to make people like me. I try to show people that they don't have to be afraid to show their goofy side.

I'm a die-hard foodie; I'm the girl next door post pack-up, and my best friends aren't from the industry.

Selfies are one of those things I generally take but never post. It's more to remember the moment or what I'm doing.

I wish we did, in a way, grow up in the forest and we didn't all just post bikini pictures and work out just to look good.

I've decided that I'm not going to filter as much of what I post, because what's the point?

As long as you aren't hurting anyone through your post, just do what makes you happy and what is important for you and ignore others.

I draft things on Twitter five or six times now, where as five, six years ago, I probably would just post and not really censor myself as much. But now I'm like, well, I don't want to post that I ate at McDonald's because then I'm going to get someone telling me I'm fat.

I don't think much about what to post.

I don't post my work on social media. I don't have to.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

I don't want to feel like I have to be a poster child for anything other than being a great artist. I don't take that on board as being my responsibility as a gay man, because I think it's really limiting.

I want to be a poster boy for the uncool.

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

I think, for a lot of people, the point is to get high engagement and likes on their photos, so I think it's just good marketing. But at the same time, if you're posting pictures and you look nothing like your pictures, then it's false advertising.

I barely ever reread the chapter before posting, because I overthink things, and I feel like overediting or trying to use too many words can ruin the story.

I am not the kind of person who narrates every aspect of my life on social media; it's about posting things that are important to me.

When I was 13, I started posting songs every week that I'd written. They weren't fantastic, but people connected to them in some way. And that's the only way that I grow my audience as a writer.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.

You want to have the perfect balance of hot and funny on your Instagram, but you never want too much of either... Don't try to add humility to your blatant 'hot' posts through a half-hearted attempt at being funny. You look good; just own it.

I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.

I still wear makeup, but I'm no longer hiding behind pot after pot of foundation or endless filters on Instagram.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.