Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

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.

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

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

We could have done things in a more transparent manner and explained better.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

What you see is what you get.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.