Stephenie Meyer Quotes

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

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• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Industry

• I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Real
  • Me
  • Day

• My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Real
  • Truth

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Real
  • Water
  • Scary

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Children

• Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

  

  Jack Germond
  • World
  • Real
  • Pictures

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • She
  • Want
  • Technology

• That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Write
  • Before

• I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • Write
  • Direction

• I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Problem

• Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Sometimes actors can be super sensitive!

  

  Matt Lanter

• I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

  

  Patti LuPone

• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Ignorance

• Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

  

  David Gallagher
  • Friends

• 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
  • Real
  • Write
  • Characters