#hem

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#best #best way #friends #give #keep

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#believe #down #get #hungry #i

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#carry #confidence #criticisms #crystallize #deadline

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#characters #forget #guess #i #i can

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#brutal #cutting #down #every #every time

Maybe it's because I'm a little naive, but I do like to think that there aren't really very many truly bad people in the world. I think that everybody has their reasons for what they do, and if you really look through their eyes, you could probably understand them. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#bad people #because #could #everybody #eyes

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness. ↗

— Gustave Meyrink

#earth #hidden #like #maintaining #read

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #book #books #casting #funny

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#awry #been #character #creating #everybody

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. ↗

— George Michael

#artist #every #i #outlive #some