Quotes About Clarity

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

His thoughts were heavy as if they had to struggle up through some dense medium to reach the surface of his mind.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

The novelist's job is to] make everything, even an ultimate concern, as solid, as concrete, as specific as possible.

i write because i don't know what i think until i read what i say

When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

I don't think too far ahead of myself.

When you can get the game to slow down for you, you can play a lot faster.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

My favorite thing to do is not act - it's that simple.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Going into the second arc, I'm making a conscious effort to do something I say I never do, which is to change my style because of feedback. I'm trying to make 'Pretty Deadly' more accessible by being more clear in the writing.

I feel good that I have my life in order. I'm not addicted to anything that I'm aware of.

It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.

I am a biological female. I have two children. I've been married for 16 years. I've never been a man.

You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step into the ring.

There are very few things that a good run can't help you figure out.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.