Quotes About Clarity

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Truth is an illusory notion.

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

I'm not in the business of holding people's hands after I've expressed to them my needs numerous times.

I am not a madman or a nut.

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

If God exists, what objection can he have to saying so?

I'm objective because I tell the truth.

I think I should be objective, call 'em as I see 'em. Stay the Tooz.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

I had confidence in my quality, so I was always positive and had good objectivity.