Quotes About Insight

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Anything I write is going to be autobiographical and true to some degree.

I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

I like autobiographies. I wouldn't mind making one of those.

When you're a player, there is almost automatically a respect you have for a person that has been in that fight, who knows what it's all about.

I try to avoid giving advice.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

To be awake is everything.

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.

I've always been weirdly interested in food documentaries.

I just like documentaries.

I love documentary because it's alive.

If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.

People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

It's very hard to get inside Donald Trump's brain, and I don't want to try.