Allison Pearson Quotes

I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

I want to be able to speak to some real things.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

I blog because I have something to say.

I want my voice to have purpose.

I love to write.

I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.

I write for my people.

There is something in my brain that said if I get Halestorm to a point where people are actually listening to what I have to say, I might as well put out positivity and be that empowering figure that I would have wanted in a rock star.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

Not everyone's really got the heart to talk about what's going on with their love in their music.

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself