Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.
Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.
Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language.