Erin Morgenstern Quotes

One must be frank to be relevant.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

Candor helps a lot.

I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment.

I don't talk around issues.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

Sometimes players are very fed up with my communication, but that's what I do, and they know how I think. But they know I am very transparent.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.

"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues.

I don't want to be mysterious.

I like to say it like it is.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.