“The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things I can say to you are insults.”

— Brandon Sanderson, book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

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American fantasy writer 1975

Kresley Cole American writer

“If someone insults me, I only feel an infinite pity for him.”

K. R. Narayanan (1920–2005) 9th Vice President and the 10th President of India

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“Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.”

Billy Joe Shaver (1939) American singer-songwriter

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“When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Source: Handle with Care

“You’re the only person I’ve ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.”

Virginia Woolf book The Voyage Out

Source: The Voyage Out

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”

Tamora Pierce In the Hand of the Goddess

Source: In the Hand of the Goddess

“You look lousy,"Simon said.
Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“There’s no way to please everyone, because that mythical book with the ending that every single person wants can’t exist—you want different things, each one of you. The only thing I can do, in light of that fact, is write an honest story as best I can.”

Veronica Roth (1988) American author

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