Jane Wiedlin Quotes

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

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

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

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

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

The whole 'Melrose' series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I come out of real life.

The art of life is to show your hand.

I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I have faced up to what I am.

You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.