#own

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

I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#changes #enjoyable #entertain #explore #family

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

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #been #body #creating #defined

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #free #i #i do #important

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#any #because #best #calls #challenges

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#companies #down #fact #go #ground

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row. ↗

— Pras Michel

#bit #down #felt #friends #i

I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?' ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#am #been #benjamin #blessed #confidence