Quotes About Truth

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

The inspiration for 'Human' came from a conversation. We stumbled upon this question: sometimes you think a problem is a problem when sometimes it isn't. And it takes you to have a little step back and realize you might be a bit dramatic.

I seem to be drawn to things that actually happen.

I've always been drawn to the real stuff and the stuff that feels authentic. And so when I'm writing songs, that's what I try to do.

The media dresses things up. There's a lot of inaccuracy.

I would say the dumbest thing I have heard is that my dad isn't my real dad.

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that's not good.

I think the easiest story to tell is your own.

The easiest way to make television authentic is to make it really authentic.

People need to remember that people edit their pictures, they change the way they want to look.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.

I am one of the elect, one of the few in the know, in the gnosis.

I'll tell you the truth, even in an election year, and that's what people are ready for.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

I don't try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there's a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.

If you're a drama writer, obviously you always have to tell the truth; there's no element of fiction in at all.

There's always an element of truth to what I write because that's why I write.

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.