Wayne White Quotes

If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

To be is to be vulnerable.

I think connection makes me vulnerable. Commitment makes me vulnerable, really.

it's a weird thing with acting and it happens to a lot of actors, not just myself - it's like you're giving off an I really need to be loved today vibe. My worst moment recently is I fell asleep on the tube in London on the Victoria line 8:30 in the morning and I woke up and there were about five people with iPhones taking pictures.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be touched, to reveal how vulnerable we are, how transient.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.