There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.

“She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences.”

— Margaret Atwood

Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male…

— Jill Abramson

“The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer.”

— Oscar Wilde

The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I…

— Nancy Dubuc

“I go about things in an oblique way. It's like a sidelong glance. This doesn't mean I don't like the sharp stab of directness—only…

— Lê Thi Diem Thúy

Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness…

— Wyndham Lewis

“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.”

— Julie Anne Long

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

— Chad Harbach

I'm not a guy who plays political games, and I believe absolutely in one method, which is directness.

— Peter Jones

“one will not break through to the enemy with theory. Directness is most important, when in front of the lion’s den…”

— Rati Tsiteladze

“I’m going to address you bluntly, but it’s a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgment of you.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least…

— Sue Hubbell

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.

— Serj Tankian

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

— John Dewey