The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.
Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
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