Kami Garcia Quotes

I don't want to read about the fabricated version of someone's life. I want to know what haunts you, what are you ashamed of, what embarrasses you, what do you wish was different?

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

There is no merit in being truthful when one is truthful by nature, or rather when one can be nothing else; it is a gift, like poetry or music. But it needs courage to be truthful after carefully considering the matter, unless a kind of pride is involved; for example, the man who says to himself, "I am ugly," and then says, "I am ugly" to his friends, lest they should think themselves the first to make the discovery.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I'm not on the stage going, 'Look at me! I'm amazing!' I accept my vulnerability, don't pretend I'm something I'm not. I don't want to come across as fake.

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

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.