Quotes About Authenticity

One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

beautiful day for you is yourself.

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

There is no such thing as a lesser truth.

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

The girl in the picture is not me, but neither is she a fictional creation. There is no one else in the world I know in such vast and inexhaustible detail

J'ai toujours voulu écrire comme si je devais être absente à la parution du texte. Écrire comme si je devais mourir, qu'il n'y ait plus de juges.

9 h 25. Je le savais, mais tant que les choses ne sont pas dites (ou écrites : en littérature, sans détours, ni allusions), elles n'existent pas.

Si je ne les écris pas, les choses ne sont pas allées jusqu'à leur terme, elles ont été seulement vécues.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open. ANONYMOUS

Writing is only boring to the people who are boring themselves.

Is it live, or is it Memorex?

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.

I would never lie about another professional.

We get stereotyped so much. Look, people are going to think what they're going to think of me, but if I'm myself consistently then I don't fit into your little box of what a professional athlete is.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.